Owner Ralph Ardito Jr. paid all the back property taxes amounting to just under $6,000 for the high-profile business.
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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Archivists mourn destruction of gravestones at Whitefield cemetery
‘This is no ordinary cemetery,’ Whitefield archivist Marie Sacks said after a car crash that damaged historic gravestones.
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Drug dealer from Gardiner nicknamed ‘Crazy’ pleads guilty to federal conspiracy charge
The prosecution said that Jason Folkner had allowed a dealer from Rochester, New York, to use his Gardiner residence to sell drugs in the region.
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Winslow man to serve 24 months in federal prison for exporting guns to Romania
Iulian Petre was sentenced Thursday in U.S. Disrict Court in Bangor by a judge who told him ‘your firearms days are over.’
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Cocaine, pipe found in inmate’s prosthetic leg after drug overdose, police say
Sonya Engelhardt was taken to an Augusta hospital after reportedly suffering a drug overdose in jail.
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Judge says ‘shocking’ amount of drugs seized during raid of Augusta hotel room
Agents reported seizing an estimated $70,000 worth of heroin and $3,852 in cash following the raid Monday night, charging four people in connection with the incident.
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Man sent to prison after making offensive hand gesture at woman he assaulted
Terrence N. Townes, 40, and formerly of Bangor, was subject to bail conditions prohibiting him from contact with the assault victim when he made the obscene gesture at her on April 11, 2017.
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Franklin County man pleads guilty to manslaughter in death involving drug money dispute
Timothy Danforth is to be sentenced later in the shotgun slaying of Michael Reis in June 2016 in Wilton.
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Georgia woman charged for driving to Maine without windshield
Anh Mai told police she crashed her vehicle in Georgia and kept driving up to Maine with the windshield smashed out with no set destination.
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Waterville woman sent to prison for 5 years for drug trafficking
The judge suspended the rest of the 15-year sentence of Dolly Carpenter, 50, while she serves four years on probation.