The man serving 30 years in prison for burning down the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop in Vassalboro went on trial briefly this week on a charges of tampering with a witness and assault.
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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Plant snatcher strikes Augusta credit union
The latest unscheduled withdrawal at a local credit union was from the flower bed, and it was all caught on surveillance video.
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Motorist dies in Somerville crash
SOMERVILLE — One person died in a fiery crash after a vehicle struck a tree and burst into flames just before midnight Thursday on Somerville Road. Somerville firefighters extinguished the blaze and found the driver dead, according to a press release from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office. The vehicle and the occupant were taken to […]
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State finds money to pay laywers of indigent clients
AUGUSTA — Bills from lawyers representing indigent defendants will be paid sooner rather than later now that the governor stepped in with some emergency funding.
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Money found for lawyers of indigent
AUGUSTA — Bills from lawyers representing indigent defendants will be paid sooner rather than later now that the governor stepped in with some emergency funding.
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Fayette voters to consider spending issues
FAYETTE — Residents will be asked whether they want to spend money on a new excavator at the business portion of the annual Town Meeting begins at 9 a.m. Saturday at Fayette Central School.
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Voters favor RSU 4 improvements
WALES — Residents from the three towns that comprise Regional School Unit 4 favor repairing existing schools and keeping the two primary schools in operation.
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State to make up shortfall to lawyers for indigents
An emergency infusion of just over $900,000 means the state can pay attorneys’ bills going back to May 10.
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Families from unsafe apartment building find housing
AUGUSTA — The three families displaced Tuesday when their apartment building was abruptly declared unfit for living have found new lodgings with help from the city and others.
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RSU4 voters opt for school repairs
WALES — Residents of the three towns that make up Regional School Unit 4, Litchfield Sabattus and Wales, favor repairing existing schools and keeping the two primary schools in operation. The voters made their preferences known in a nonbinding referendum at the polls Tuesday. The majority of voters — 443 from all three towns — […]