AUGUSTA — At a final public hearing about the proposed $11 million modification of Interstate 95’s exit 113 and upgrading of part of Old Belgrade Road, attendees will see few changes from the draft proposal shown in October.
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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Both Swans plead not guilty in court
BANGOR — Former Chelsea selectman Carole J. Swan and her husband, contractor Marshall Swan, pleaded not guilty Thursday afternoon to a series of federal offenses.
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Both Swans plead not guilty
BANGOR — Former Chelsea selectman Carole J. Swan and her husband, contractor Marshall Swan, pleaded not guilty Thursday afternoon to a series of federal offenses.
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Litchfield OKs purchase of alarms for town’s public works garage
LITCHFIELD — Selectmen on Tuesday agreed to buy an intrusion and fire alarm system for the town’s public works garage.
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Barking dog rules up for West Gardiner review
WEST GARDINER — Residents will be asked to put some teeth into the barking dog ordinance by specifying how long a dog can bark continuously or intermittently before becoming a nuisance.
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Man gets 18 months in jail for burglary, extortion
AUGUSTA — A thief who tried to extort $2,000 from an Augusta couple whose home he burglarized was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison.
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Sexual attack nets man 15 years
AUGUSTA — A man will spend the next 15 years in prison for a drunken late night sexual attack on a neighbor whose husband had just left for work.
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Neither side willing to budge in DA spot fight
It’s a stalemate in the duel over who fill the district attorney’s post in Kennebec and Somerset counties until an election can be held. Gov. Paul LePage has not acted on the lone nominee — Rep. Maeghan Maloney, D-Augusta — whose name was the only one forwarded following a joint meeting Feb. 8 of the two Democratic county committees.
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Standoff over district attorney
AUGUSTA — It’s a stalemate in the duel over who will fill the district attorney’s post in Kennebec and Somerset counties until an election can be held.
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Rapist sent to prison for 15 years
AUGUSTA — A man will spend the next 15 years in prison for a drunken late night sexual attack on a neighbor whose husband had just left for work.