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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PublishedMay 26, 2013
Litchfield to choose selectman, consider zoning changes next month
Litchfield voters will be asked to cast ballots for selectman, and consider allowing vehicle sales and service in the rural zoning district, during elections and the Town Meeting next month.
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PublishedMay 26, 2013
Passer-by saves man from Augusta apartment house fire
John Murray, 62, injured in a Sunday blaze at 26 Pleasant St. in Augusta, was rescued by Michael Murphy, who works at a nearby funeral home.
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PublishedMay 25, 2013
Kents Hill School grads urged to be people of ‘principle’
Kents Hill School held its commencement Saturday inside, but the graduates didn’t let the dreary weather rain on their parade.
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PublishedMay 24, 2013
Police charge Waterville man with recording alleged sex acts with teenagers
Timothy Joseph Gaudette, 19, of Waterville, recorded himself having sex with a 17-year-old girl and took similar photos with a 13-year-old girl in his apartment in late March, made an initial appearance Friday in Augusta District Court of charges of gross sexual assault.
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PublishedMay 22, 2013
North Pond Hermit court hearing delayed for mental health evaluation results
Christopher Knight, 47, the man known as the North Pond Hermit, will not be in Kennebec County Superior Court Wednesday as scheduled, on charges of burglarizing Pine Tree Camp in Rome.
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PublishedMay 22, 2013
Waterville car rental business owner loses use tax appeal
Eagle Rental of Waterville will have to pay use tax on four Cadillac Escalades driven by company owner Dan Bickford and his wife Jane, who is company vice president and treasurer. the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled Tuesday.
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PublishedMay 18, 2013
RSU 4 budget proposal strikes 9 teaching jobs, means higher costs to towns
Nine teaching jobs will be cut if the proposed $17.7 million budget is adopted in Regional School Unit 4 — Litchfield, Sabattus and Wales — and each town will be billed more to support that budget.
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PublishedMay 18, 2013
Understaffed, undersized and under siege: Riverview hospital struggles with safety
Data the Kennebec Journal received through a records request show the total number of injuries reported at Riverview is the highest it’s been in three years, though lower than in years before that.
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PublishedMay 18, 2013
Killers’ cases illustrate difficulties in granting freedoms to forensic patients
The cases of Robert E. Bowie, formerly of Hebron, and Enoch Petrucelly, formerly of North Haven, shed light on the conditions under which forensic mentally ill patients are granted privileges from Riverview Psychiatric Hospital.
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PublishedMay 15, 2013
OSHA proposes $79,000 fine for Jefferson sawmill in light of safety violations
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited N.C. Hunt Inc. for safety violations following an inspection.
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