Museum volunteers resurrect 1-ton ice boat with a 25-foot mast and 28-foot beam built in the late 19th or early 20th century.
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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Maine patients urged to compare test, treatment price tags
A Gardiner couple was shocked by the difference between doctor’s office and hospital medical test prices.
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Kennebec County prevails in retirement benefits appeal
Maine Supreme Judicial Court decision means three people lose opportunity for a retirement fund boost.
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Augusta’s Colonial Theater inspires visions of vibrant future
A discussion session Thursday night elicits dozens of suggestions for what a developer could do with the unoccupied building which backs onto the Kennebec River.
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Auburn man gets two-year sentence for robbing Augusta CVS
Anthony Post is the third defendant to be sentenced in that robbery.
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Riverview problems won’t be solved by new treatment unit at Maine State Prison
Housing prisoners in the treatment center in Warren eases some problems at county jails and provides important services for them.
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Shoplifting cookware brings drug charge against Windsor man
A judge has sentenced William Atwood to nine months in jail after he pleaded guilty.
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Augusta’s Burns celebrates 100th birthday
Centenarian celebrates with children, grandchildren
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Augusta man pleads guilty to two 2012 CVS pharmacy robberies
Judge sentences Michael Pierce to five years in jail with all but two years suspended for robberies in the capital city.
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Augusta man to serve 10 months in federal prison on drug charge
Defendant Michael Pierce is to be in state court Wednesday on pharmacy robbery charges.