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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PublishedFebruary 25, 2013
Blind diner wins rights panel’s backing for Seeing Eye dog discrimination claim
A human rights panel voted 5-0 Monday to find reasonable grounds that the Great Wall Buffet in Augusta discriminated against a Presque Isle man who was seated apart from the rest of the diners when his Seeing Eye dog accompanied him at the restaurant two years ago.
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PublishedFebruary 22, 2013
Tracked down by police dog, West Gardiner man behind bars
GARDINER — An 18-year-old West Gardiner man spent Thursday night behind bars after a police dog tracked him down after a short car chase through the city.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2013
Legislators urged to get Maine’s courts into digital age
AUGUSTA — Chief Justice Leigh Saufley on Thursday urged legislators “to bring the courts into the digital age,” saying the Maine’s antiquated paper-based court records system soon needs an electronic conversion that will cost millions of dollars.
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PublishedFebruary 20, 2013
Local man confesses to growing pot at Augusta airport
AUGUSTA — When authorities found 146 marijuana plants growing inside the secure, fenced-in area at the Augusta State Airport last summer, they set up a camera to find the illegal gardeners.
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PublishedFebruary 16, 2013
Gardiner nurse takes prison-job firing before court
A Gardiner nurse will get to tell a jury why she feels she was a victim of retaliation when she was escorted from her job at the Maine State Prison on Oct. 17, 2008, and ultimately fired.
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PublishedFebruary 16, 2013
Exit 113 construction to cost $2 million more than expected
AUGUSTA — Officials scrambled recently when they learned it will cost nearly $2 million more than expected to fix roads near a reconfigured Exit 113 and new regional hospital.
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PublishedFebruary 16, 2013
Litchfield comprehensive plan committee wants more public input
LITCHFIELD — The Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee is hoping for more public input Wednesday on issues being readied for inclusion in a draft of a new Comprehension Plan.
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2013
South China man gets 90 days in jail for threatening judge
AUGUSTA — A South China man will spend 90 days in jail for threatening to shoot a district court judge.
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2013
Second man pleads guilty to Augusta burglaries
AUGUSTA — The second of three city men charged in connection with a series of home burglaries last year pleaded guilty Tuesday to 16 charges in Kennebec County Superior Court.
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PublishedFebruary 12, 2013
HazMat specialist pleads guilty to destroying documents
AUGUSTA — A former hazardous materials cleanup specialist for the state has pleaded guilty to destroying records of the final three years of cleanups he was involved in.
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