AUGUSTA — An Augusta man, his girlfriend and his sister have been indicted on more than 100 criminal charges combined in connection with a string of burglaries last fall across central Maine.
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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Two indicted in evasion of cigarette tax
AUGUSTA — Two Somerset County men have been indicted on allegations that they sold cigarettes to customers that did not include tax stamps.
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But some business owners not so thrilled
AUGUSTA — A dozen families and a handful of businesses on both sides of the Kennebec River had to move.
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Officials say they do their best, and many homeowners agree
AUGUSTA — In the mid 1980s, the city acquired the Fort Western Tire Co. property on Cony Street to house the new City Center.
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Move would fit church, courthouse plans
AUGUSTA — People who attend the small, brick Augusta Spiritualist Church want out of the shadow of the Kennebec County Superior Court building.
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Augusta church plans move
AUGUSTA — People who attend the small, brick Augusta Spiritualist Church want out of the shadow of the Kennebec County Superior Court building.
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Feds give Fayette $270,000 grant for fire equipment
FAYETTE — More than $270,000 in federal funding announced Wednesday for the Fayette Fire Department is the largest grant the small force has ever received and will help buy new equipment.
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Foundation of new MaineGeneral hospital almost complete
AUGUSTA — So far, a little more than one-sixth of MaineGeneral Medical Center’s new $310 million regional hospital is framed out, with the pace of the work clearly visible from Old Belgrade Road and from Interstate 95 near Exit 113 in north Augusta.
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MaineGeneral’s new facility ahead of schedule
AUGUSTA — A 310-foot crane swung two large steel beams slowly toward the workers who added them to the skeleton of the emergency department.
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Mom ‘so sorry’ baby hurt
A Bingham woman whose toddler swallowed cocaine last August will spend 90 days in jail.