Justin Pillsbury, 38, will remain in jail on a murder charge.
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.
Augusta Affordable Care Act forum brings questions, answers
Panelists say system is improving.
Furnishings of old Augusta hospital on sale this weekend
Couches, chairs, clocks, tables fans offered for cash and carry.
Mount Vernon, Clinton, Winthrop women indicted on theft charges
Gardiner supermarket, public programs named victims.
45 years later, mom sees Augusta memorial of sailor killed in Vietnam
Military museum display honors Robert Moinester.
Augusta’s Alfond Center for Health to open Saturday
The new, 192-bed hospital in Augusta starts up at 6 a.m.
New regional hospital prepped and ready in Augusta
MaineGeneral’s $312M Alfond Center for Health opens Saturday.
Randolph man sentenced in 2012 aggravated assault
Farmingdale man, who spent months recovering, says he was “laughed at, tortured, beaten and scared” for his life.
Officials laud new Augusta hospital roundabouts
$13 million road network links Routes 3 & 27 & I-95.