FAYETTE — Selectmen will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday to consider giving final approval to the articles that will appear on the warrant for the annual Town Meeting on June 16.
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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Cost reductions at MaineGeneral mean 47 fewer jobs
AUGUSTA — MaineGeneral Medical Center is trimming 47 positions from its staff as a cost-cutting measure to meet its almost $400 million operating budget for the next fiscal year.
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Hospital pares 47 positions
AUGUSTA — MaineGeneral Medical Center is trimming 47 positions from its staff as a cost-cutting measure to meet its almost $400 million operating budget for the next fiscal year.
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Drug addiction blamed in crime spree
AUGUSTA — Ricky Allen Lane said Wednesday that an opiate drug addiction led him to take part in a dozen crimes in nine days, including an armed home invasion in Manchester.
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Drug agents swarm area
All was quiet mid-morning Tuesday, at Averill Condominiums in Waterville. Abby Witham was enjoying some fresh air from her second-floor balcony. Cabbie Keith Young was dropping off a regular customer.
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10 captured, 6 hunted in central Maine drug operation
All was quiet mid-morning Tuesday, at Averill Condominiums in Waterville. Abby Witham was enjoying some fresh air from her second-floor balcony. Cabbie Keith Young was dropping off a regular customer. Then, the silence was broken. At about 10 a.m., nearly a dozen law enforcement officers sprang out of parked cars and the nearby woods with […]
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Fairfield woman wins discrimination case
AUGUSTA — A state human rights panel on Monday unanimously sided with a woman who said a Hallowell-based business discriminated against her because of race, color, national origin and ancestry.
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Panel sides with woman
AUGUSTA — A state human rights panel on Monday unanimously sided with a woman who said a Hallowell-based business discriminated against her because of race, color, national origin and ancestry.
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Work on new courthouse continues behind scenes
AUGUSTA — Planning for a new combined courthouse continues apace behind the scenes and should be visible to the public by late summer.
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New courthouse project on target
AUGUSTA — Planning for a new combined courthouse continues apace behind the scenes and should be visible to the public by late summer.