AUGUSTA — A man committed to state custody went AWOL from his supervised-living apartment in the city last November and was arrested by police five days later in Georgia.
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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Man returned to Riverview enters plea
AUGUSTA — A man committed to state custody went AWOL from his supervised-living apartment in the city last November and was arrested by police five days later in Georgia.
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Monmouth man sentenced for thefts
AUGUSTA — A Monmouth man was ordered Wednesday to serve 30 months in prison for a series of thefts and a burglary earlier this year that netted him $24,557 in cash and valuables.
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Discrimination suit against hospital moves forward
A federal lawsuit in which a 20-year employee of MaineGeneral Medical Center claims he was the victim of age and disability discrimination has survived an initial hurdle and is set for trial in August.
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Lawsuit will go forward
A federal lawsuit in which a 20-year employee of MaineGeneral Medical Center claims he was the victim of age and disability discrimination has survived an initial hurdle and is set for trial in August.
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RSU 4 grapples with aging schools
Voters in Litchfield, Sabattus and Wales are being asked to help the school board decide what to do with the two aging primary schools in Regional School Unit 4.
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Education, insurance top issues in primary
The two Democrats seeking the nomination in House District 58 have marked differences in their platforms.
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Fournier, Fowle seek Democratic nod in House 58
The two Democrats seeking the nomination in House District 58 have marked differences in their platforms.
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New hospital nearly one-third done
AUGUSTA — The region’s newest hospital is about one-third complete and construction is moving along rapidly.
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Prefab work aiding completion of MaineGeneral’s new hospital
AUGUSTA — The region’s newest hospital is about one-third complete and construction is moving along rapidly.