Polar Bear Plunge raises money for city park.
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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State order to halt to Red Barn benefits raises flap
Augusta restaurant brought in $635,000 for charitable causes.
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Belgrade’s new library director starts next week
Oakland woman brings school, college experience to job.
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Augusta crack cocaine sales net NY man six years in prison
Three arrested in Augusta last spring after two-month investigation.
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Illegal hunting draws 9-month jail term
Mt. Vernon man pleads guilty to dozens of charges
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Convicted Maine killer loses bid for new trial
John A. Okie, formerly of Newcastle, killed his father and a former girlfriend in 2007.
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Five sentenced in New York City/central Maine drug ring
Those sentenced include the mother of one of the other conspirators, who was arrested in Augusta, getting off a bus from New York City with oxycodone and cocaine.
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Police: Suspect in Augusta Shaws pharmacy robbery fled in taxi
Judge keeps Dresen man’s bail at $30,000 on charges he robbed two pharmacies in 48 hours.
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Judge allows Augusta to inspect landlord’s properties
City claims buildings lack safe exits and have other code violations.
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Augusta man gets prison term for Hallowell thefts
Collin R. Giroux, 37, of Augusta, was sentenced Monday in Kennebec County Superior Court for burglarizing the Hallowell Water District property between September and November 2011 and stealing a drill press and laptop.