AUGUSTA — The $312 million hospital rising on a hillside in north Augusta is being built by people likely to use it.
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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China, state confrontation on police services
CHINA — A long-running dispute between the state and the town over fees for dispatching police and sheriff’s officers could leave the town without that service or embroiled in a legal battle.
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A local jobs generator
AUGUSTA — The $312 million hospital rising on a hillside in north Augusta is being built by people likely to use it. And this past week, the number of workers topped 300 for the first time. The hardhat count will rise to between 400 and 500 over the summer.
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Roommate charged in homicide
The roommate of an Augusta man who died of stab wounds to the chest last June was arrested Thursday night in Key West, Fla., on a charge of murder.
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One jury for five protesters
AUGUSTA — Five Occupy Augusta supporters charged with disobeying police orders to leave the Blaine House will be tried together April 25 and 26 in front of one jury.
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Man pleads guilty to stabbing charge
AUGUSTA — A Fairfield man pleaded guilty Friday to stabbing a man in the back during a melee in Winslow last October that left several people with knife wounds.
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Occupy Augusta supporters face trial April 25-26
AUGUSTA — Five Occupy Augusta supporters charged with disobeying police orders to leave the Blaine House will be tried together April 25 and 26 in front of one jury.
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Roommate charged in Augusta slaying
The roommate of an Augusta man who died of stab wounds to the chest last June was arrested Thursday night in Key West, Fla., on a charge of murder. Michael Lee Thomas Young, 40, was picked up by officers of the Key West Police Department on a warrant from Maine. Young’s sudden arrest marked the […]
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Trials set for remaining Blaine House protesters
AUGUSTA — Five Occupy Augusta supporters charged with criminal trespass for allegedly remaining on Blaine House grounds despite police orders to leave are to be tried together April 25 and 26 in front of one jury.
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Home invasion nets lengthy prison terms
AUGUSTA — Two men received lengthy prison sentences Thursday for their roles in an armed home invasion last September, and one of them must pay restitution for stealing $15,000 in jewelry from his former mother-in-law.