Betty Adams

Kennebec Journal

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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Foster, Fowle battle for seat

by Betty Adams

AUGUSTA — The candidates for House District 58 are going head-to-head and door-to-door as incumbent Republican Karen Foster seeks to keep her seat and Democrat Lori Fowle seeks to occupy it. District 58, which serves Vassalboro, Windsor and the northeast section of Augusta, has been Republican since 2005, the same year the makeup of the […]

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PERVERSION FILES: Boy Scout documents include Mainers

by Betty Adams, Leslie Bridgers and David Hench

Thousands of newly released Boy Scout files documenting allegations of sexual abuse by scout volunteers include detailed files on eight Scout leaders in Maine who were banned from the organization. The eight represent just a fraction of the so-called “perversion files” involving Scout leaders nationwide. Thousands of those files, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, […]

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