MOUNT VERNON — A family is homeless but uninjured after their Poplar Point home caught on fire Thursday night.
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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Fatal Somerville fire rekindles twice on Friday
SOMERVILLE — A fire that killed a homeowner here Thursday rekindled twice the following morning, leaving firefighters to battle it with equipment that once again froze in the cold.
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Lewiston man charged with Stone Street CVS robbery
AUGUSTA — A 19-year-old Lewiston man has been arrested and charged with Tuesday’s robbery of the CVS Pharmacy on Stone Street, police said.
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Update: Somerville man found dead after fire destroys his home
SOMERVILLE — The search was on Thursday night for 92-year-old Cecil Brann even as flames from his residence on Crummett Mountain Road lit the darkness.
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Man arrested in Augusta CVS pharmacy robbery
AUGUSTA — A 19-year-old Auburn man has been arrested and charged with Tuesday’s robbery of the CVS Pharmacy on Stone Street, police said. The suspect, Anthony Post, was located in Augusta and turned over to the FBI.
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New letter scam seeks corporate records information
AUGUSTA — Letters asking for corporate directors’ names, addresses and $125 from “Corporate Records Services” did not come from state Bureau of Corporations.
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State: scam targets Maine corporations, including nonprofits
AUGUSTA — Letters asking for corporate directors’ names, addresses and $125 from “Corporate Records Services” apparently did not come from state Bureau of Corporations.
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Augusta’s new hospital named ‘Alfond Center for Health’
AUGUSTA — MaineGeneral Medical Center’s new $312 million regional hospital will be called the Alfond Center for Health when it opens this coming November, hospital official said.
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Family homeless after Chelsea fire
A family of three is homeless following a fire this morning that destroyed a portion of their mobile home. No one was injured.
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NYC cops taking teen drug dealer in Augusta back to big city
AUGUSTA — A teenager found hiding under a bed in a Water Street apartment when police executed a search warrant has pleaded guilty to trafficking in heroin.