The public is asked to comment on a plan to remove the O’Connor Superfund Site on Eastern Avenue from the national priorities list.
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.
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Gardiner asks judge to overturn code officer and appeals board rulings
The property at 122 Brunswick Ave. has been used as an office site for years.
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Augusta identical twins mark 100
The Binette brothers, who are two of 12 children in the family, took a trip down memory lane to celebrate a century’s worth of birthdays.
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Sidney man sentenced for tools, trailer theft
The defendant was ordered to pay up to $65,225 in restitution for stolen items.
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Kennebec County court building in Augusta closed early Wednesday
It wasn’t the weather, but an oil leak, that caused the closure.
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Monmouth man sentenced for possession of child pornography
The case is one of several in which sentences were issued Tuesday in Kenebec County Superior Court.
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Maine agencies seek more funding to aid mental illness
There are concerns that an estimated $4.5 to $4.7 million budget cut could see many Mainers who rely on that funding end up in the streets or lose other health services.
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State seizes koi from Harpswell woman
A warden and biologists from the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife also took Georgette Curran’s squirrel and blue jay.
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State seeks Pillsbury’s medical records in Augusta fatal stabbing
A judge has ordered MaineGeneral Medical Center to turn over records to the court of the man who is charged with stabbing Jillian Jones, who then allegedly tried to kill himself.
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Windsor man sentenced for child sexual abuse
A judge imposed prison followed by 16 years of probation to keep Richard Libby under supervision longer.