AUGUSTA — A man who served 20 years for murdering his mother will spend three and a half years in prison after he accosted a clerk in an adult bookstore in Waterville last year while wearing only socks and sneakers.
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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Obama dinner gets cheesy
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AUGUSTA — A Waterville man will spend three and a half years in prison for accosting a clerk in an adult bookstore by wearing only his socks and sneakers.
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