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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PublishedMarch 21, 2014
Augusta Rite Aid pharmacy robber sentenced
The 21-year-old who barricaded himself in a store bathroom with stolen drugs was sentenced to prison.
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PublishedMarch 21, 2014
High-profile central Maine defense attorney Campbell faces misconduct charges
The Bowdoinham lawyer who defended the Vassalboro topless coffee shop arsonist is accused of multiple violations related to being named in a Pittston woman’s will.
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PublishedMarch 20, 2014
Salvation Army Capital Region Corps finds new home in Augusta
The ministry serves people in Augusta and Waterville.
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PublishedMarch 19, 2014
Ruling ends lawsuit over Winthrop’s burned plow truck
The insurer recouped $38,000 from two other defendants in the case.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2014
Judge: Mount Vernon lakeside garden permit issued erroneously
The ruling reverses a decision by the town’s Planning Board of Appeals.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2014
Rome cell tower dispute enters federal arena
Two companies have asked a judge to overturn a Planning Board ruling and order a permit to be issued for a 190-foot tower off Route 27.
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PublishedMarch 15, 2014
Belgrade voters OK all items on town warrant
Saturday’s annual meeting followed Friday’s referendum.
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PublishedMarch 14, 2014
Augusta holdup suspect allegedly hit Leighton Road man with gun, grabbed $200
Judge sets bail on robbery charge against Nicholas R. Williams, who was convicted of robbery in Portland in 2001, at $10,000 cash.
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PublishedMarch 14, 2014
Waterville nursing home to get Riverview patient
The woman found not criminally responsible for killing her boyfriend in Bangor is in poor health.
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PublishedMarch 14, 2014
Attorneys in Gary Raub cold case homicide trial question chain of evidence
A judge denied a motion to dismiss an indictment against former homeless Seattle man who is charged with criminal homicide in connection with Blanche Kimball’s 1976 Augusta murder.
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