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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PublishedJanuary 13, 2013
Fayette forms committee to explore AOS 97 withdrawal
FAYETTE — A committee yet to be named will explore the idea of leaving the alternative school district the town formed with Winthrop less than three years ago.
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PublishedJanuary 12, 2013
Fired Waterville officer sues city in federal court on disability claim
A fired Waterville police sergeant has taken his claim of disability discrimination to federal court.
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PublishedJanuary 10, 2013
Hallowell Pre-Release Center to close
The facility’s 58 inmates and 21 budgeted staff positions are being relocated to the Bolduc Correctional Facility in Warren.
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PublishedJanuary 8, 2013
Fire damages Litchfield home Tuesday; no injuries reported
LITCHFIELD — Firefighters have put out a fire reported at 769 Plains Road this morning.
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PublishedJanuary 7, 2013
Pittston woman jailed 20 months on cocaine trafficking, possession charges
AUGUSTA — A Pittston woman will spend the next 20 months in jail for dealing in cocaine.
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PublishedJanuary 7, 2013
Litchfield selectmen to consider Town Office marriage ban at Tuesday meeting
LITCHFIELD — After a same-sex couple was granted a marriage license but denied their request to be married by Town Office notaries on New Year’s Eve, selectmen are considering banning marriages at the Town Office.
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PublishedJanuary 5, 2013
Proposed $10.8 million upgrade to new hospital’s highway interchange goes to bid Wednesday
AUGUSTA — The state has settled on plans for an estimated $10.8 million in road improvements near exit 113 of Interstate 95.
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PublishedJanuary 5, 2013
Precision aerial photography the latest tool in planners’, developers’ kits
Orthoimagery gives a really close look at the face of the Earth and true distances between points.
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PublishedJanuary 4, 2013
Silva sentenced to 43 years in Readfield killing, robbery
AUGUSTA — For robbing and killing the Readfield man who sheltered him and his girlfriend and setting that home ablaze as a cover-up, David B. Silva Jr. will spend the next 43 years in prison.
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2013
Cameron facing retrial on dismissed counts, new contempt charge
A former state prosecutor convicted of child pornography charges faces a retrial next month on six convictions that were dismissed by an appeals court. The same court upheld James M. Cameron’s convictions on seven other child pornography charges.
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