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.
AUGUSTA — It was the luck of the draw.
That’s how Ray Fecteau of Augusta and Jim Brogan of Fayette ended up as partners in Saturday’s pétanque mini-tournament and then as winners.
AUGUSTA — George Washington had been dead for a couple of weeks when two funeral processions were held for him in Boston.
CHINA — State police are investigating what they termed a suspicious death Friday night.
AUGUSTA — It was the luck of the draw. That’s how Ray Fecteau of Augusta and Jim Brogan of Fayette ended up as partners in Saturday’s pétanque mini-tournament and then as winners. They each took home a tall trophy of a classic pétanque player.
AUGUSTA — George Washington had been dead for a couple of weeks when two funeral processions were held for him in Boston.
AUGUSTA — Soft brown sugar melted into the butter atop the golden brown crepes.
CHINA — State police are investigating what they termed a “suspicious” death Friday night of James Dodge. Dodge, 38, was taken from his home by ambulance MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta where he died, according to Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine State Police. An autopsy is scheduled for Sunday at the State Medical Examiner’s […]
AUGUSTA — The father of Dexter resident Amy Lake, who was shot to death with her children in one of Maine’s most horrific domestic violence cases, said electronic monitoring for perpetrators could have saved his daughter’s life.
AUGUSTA — With daytime highs in the 90s forecast to run through the weekend as a pair of major festivals get under way in central Maine, emergency responders are putting the word out about how to stay cool.
AUGUSTA — With daytime highs in the 90s forecast to run through the weekend as a pair of major festivals get under way in central Maine, emergency responders are putting the word out about how to stay cool.
