GARDINER — For the past two weeks, morning radio personality Don Brown has slept later than usual. He gets up 6 a.m. now when his wife’s cellphone alarm rings.
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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Suspected would-be robber in court
AUGUSTA — The blue-masked man with a hood and gloves headed for the front door of The Bank of Maine branch.
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Fairfield man held following Winthrop collisions
WINTHROP — A Baptist missionary with a football background made a key tackle Thursday afternoon, helping police apprehend a suspect in a foiled Manchester bank robbery.
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Trooper, bystanders thwart robbery
WINTHROP — A Baptist missionary with a football background made a key tackle Thursday afternoon, helping police apprehend a suspect in a foiled Manchester bank robbery.
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Missionary takes down foiled robber after crash
Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine State Police, said Trooper Dane Wing saw a young man with a mask and confronted him in the parking lot before he entered the Bank of Maine at U.S. Route 202 and Pond Road.
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Charge filed after police find stolen library CDs
WINTHROP — Over the past few months, librarians at the C.M. Public Library began noticing empty music CD cases. Then, on June 2, they discovered almost the entire collection was gone.
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Truck driver in fatal crash loses license appeal
AUGUSTA — A Dexter truck driver has lost his challenge of a three-year license suspension after a crash Aug. 17 that killed a 12-year-old camper from Connecticut.
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Driver in fatal crash loses appeal of license suspension
AUGUSTA — A Dexter truck driver has lost his challenge of a three-year license suspension after a crash Aug. 17 that killed a 12-year-old camper from Connecticut.
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Winthrop officials trim tax increase
WINTHROP — First, the School Board approved a series of cuts Monday evening that lopped $117,000 from the proposed budget for the 2012-2013 school year. Then the Town Council took a turn, reopening the town budget adopted June 4 and removing $120,000, voting to use surplus funds for road maintenance rather than using property taxes.
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Driver charged in Waterville crash sent to jail
WATERVILLE — A woman is in jail after a grand jury indicted her for causing a six-vehicle crash on College Avenue in March that injured six people.