WINTHROP — Flooding caused by a broken pipe has closed the children’s area of the C.M. Bailey Public Library for at least a week and has temporarily made the upstairs bathroom unusable.
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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Turnpike section facelift on horizon
WEST GARDINER — The Litchfield and West Gardiner section of the Maine Turnpike will get an expensive facelift soon.
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Bellavance sentencing moves forward
AUGUSTA — The man convicted of burning down the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop in Vassalboro will be sentenced later this month.
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Chelsea welcomes new town clerk
CHELSEA — The newest town clerk for Chelsea — an office that has seen a lot turnover — comes with more than 17 years experience in the role.
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Bellavance to be sentenced this month
AUGUSTA — The man convicted of burning down the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop in Vassalboro will be sentenced later this month.
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Topless coffee shop arsonist to be sentenced this month
AUGUSTA — The man convicted of burning down the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop in Vassalboro will be sentenced later this month.
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Swan, husband, indicted in federal court
Former Chelsea selectwoman Carole J. Swan faces federal extortion charges, and she and her husband are both accused of working together to defraud the Federal Emergency Management Agency of money and failing to report more than $600,000 in income to the Internal Revenue Service. Swan, 53, of Chelsea, was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand […]
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Former Chelsea selectwoman, husband indicted on federal fraud charges
Former Chelsea selectwoman Carole Swan, and her husband, Marshall, were indicted today on federal fraud charges.
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Special leap year births at hospitals
AUGUSTA — Violet Marylove Burns, her blond hair covered by a pink and blue striped knitted cap, peered at the world from the arms of her father.
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Man’s escape attempt at sheriff’s office foiled
AUGUSTA — Ernest L. Gagnon told his mom, “I don’t want you to see me do this.”