Starting Monday, city residents will be able to use the system to sign up for permits instead of going to a fire station.
Betty Adams
Betty Adams is a general assignment reporter who’s lived in Augusta for the past 35 years and been working for the Kennebec Journal for more than two decades. She covers the courts plus the towns of Belgrade, Fayette and Readfield.
As adjunct instructor Elizabeth Adams, she teaches writing courses, including journalism, at the University of Maine at Augusta.
In her spare time, when she’s not playing with the grandchildren, bicycling on the rail trail, snowshoeing or cross-country skiing, she likes to travel both in the United States and abroad via cruise ship and occasionally on the back of a motorcycle.
She is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University and earned a master’s of journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
Carole Swan sentenced to more than seven years in prison
The former Chelsea selectwoman is likely to serve her time in Texas after her sentence came late Friday in US District Court in Bangor.
Trail item hot at Readfield Town Meeting
Residents asked that money be cut from Trails Committee as a way to save money in the $5.5 million budget.
Plow contractor Monroe’s lawsuit against Chelsea settled
The dispute is blamed on actions by former selectwoman Carole Swan.
Tax fraud sends vacuum cleaner sales rep to prison
The Gray man also must pay restitution of $86,476 after his Kennebec County Superior Court appearance.
Dresden clerk’s post results in write-in tie
Current clerk Kim Rzasa says she won’t accept the position.
Carole Swan’s attorney argues for less than 6-8 year sentence
The former Chelsea selectwoman is to be sentenced Friday in federal court.
Kennebec Journal area town elections
Belgrade, Dresden, Fayette, Monmouth, Readfield results.
Alternative suspect posed in 1976 Augusta homicide
Gary Raub goes on trial in late August in the cold case stabbing death of Blanche Kimball.
Panel finds no discrimination in firing of former Franklin County jail guard
The Maine Human Rights Commission voted 3-1 Monday to uphold its investigator’s finding of no reasonable grounds that discrimination occurred.