Daniel Cole held on $50,000 bail.
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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Two new roundabouts at Interstate 95 exit 113 open in north Augusta
$13 million road network near the new MaineGeneral medical center nears completion
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North Pond Hermit pleads guilty
Christopher T. Knight, who lived in the Maine woods for decades, was admitted to the Co-Occurring Disorders Court, a special, intensive supervision program where he will live and work in the community while reporting weekly to a judge.
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80 years later, Belgrade High School graduates clearly, fondly recall school days
Pearl Knowles Fisher and Ruth Endicott Freeman are the oldest living members of Belgrade High School’s class of 1933.
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Natural gas now flowing in Augusta
The new regional hospital, MaineGeneral Medical Center’s Alfond Center for Health, is the first major customer to get service.
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New book features Wayne ghosts and spirits
Some of the stories of ghosts and spirits, gleaned from local residents are collected in the book “Hauntings from Wayne and Beyond,” by Cathy Cook, who happens to be the Wayne town clerk and registrar of voters when she’s not writing about specters or running her store, Androscoggin House Antiques.
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Kennebec Savings Bank CEO Johnston to retire
A transition plan is underway for Andrew E. Silsby, chief operating officer, to take over in 2015.
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New NAMI Maine director wants to expand group’s role
Jenna Mehnert brings impressive job credentials to her new role as executive director of the state’s largest mental health membership organization, formerly the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
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Machete-wielding man gets two years for assault, threatening
Nicholas ‘Tiny’ Rolling, of New York, who held two people hostage in Winthrop in January and terrorized them with a baseball bat and machete, was sentenced on two counts of criminal threatening and one of assault.
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Belgrade shoreland restrictions may soon include streams
Draft comprehensive plan update would extend shoreland zoning to include all areas within 75 feet of streams; meeting on plan is Tuesday.