AUGUSTA — A Gardiner contractor said the state owes it almost half a million dollars for repairing a flooded building at Camp Keyes.
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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Teen girl pleads guilty to lesser charge in Cony arson
AUGUSTA — A 14-year-old girl originally charged with arson and criminal mischief in connection with a fire in a toilet at Cony middle school pleaded guilty to the lesser charge on Thursday and was placed on juvenile probation.
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Augusta planning board puts sign installations on hold
AUGUSTA — The installation of larger, free-standing signs as well as directional signs in shopping centers and on campuses in the city will have to wait a little longer.
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Pit owners’ mineral extraction license renewed, with conditions
AUGUSTA — Neighbors will get certified mail warning them 10 to 14 days in advance of any blasting at a West River Road pit owned by the West Gardiner-based McGee Properties LLC.
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Winthrop voters again turn down school budget
WINTHROP — Voters gave the school budget a second thumbs down at the polls on Tuesday.
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Winthrop voters reject school budget for 2nd time
WINTHROP — Voters gave the school budget a second thumbs down at the polls on Tuesday, rejecting the 2012-13 school budget 410-281.
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Longtime Augusta firefighter moving on
AUGUSTA — Battalion Chief Ed Charles retired from the Augusta Fire Department June 15 after 25 years of service and took off for North Dakota. There, he indulged in one of his favorite hobbies, horseback riding.
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Courthouse expansion has Tuesday hearing
AUGUSTA — The expansion of the Kennebec County Courthouse — essentially a new building with a connector to the second story of the existing courthouse — will be the topic of a public hearing Tuesday by the city Planning Board.
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Firefighter calls it a career
AUGUSTA — Battalion Chief Ed Charles retired from the Augusta Fire Department June 15 after 25 years of service and took off for North Dakota. There, he indulged in one of his favorite hobbies, horseback riding.
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School budget vote Tuesday will be on a trimmed budget
WINTHROP — When voters return to the polls Tuesday, they’ll see a proposed school budget that is $116,000 less than the one rejected June 12.