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Kennebec Journal

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.

Cops & Courts, Local & State, Maine Crime

Gardiner man sentenced to 1 year behind bars for drug trafficking

by Betty Adams March 22, 2018March 22, 2018

The remainder of the five-year term for Edwin Lawrence was suspended while he serves two years on probation.

Local & State

Ex-selectman calls for new Belgrade vote on librarian issue over protest sign removal

by Betty Adams March 21, 2018March 21, 2018

Ernie Rice says town officials illegally removed for two hours a homemade sign he had made and placed along the Town Office driveway, urging a ‘No’ vote.

Local & State, Maine Crime

Gardiner woman arraigned on federal drug conspiracy charge

by Betty Adams March 21, 2018March 21, 2018

Heather Downs, 31, denied the charge at her arraignment Wednesday in Bangor.

Cops & Courts, Maine Crime

Augusta man convicted of child pornography charges loses appeal before Supreme Court

by Betty Adams March 20, 2018March 20, 2018

Randy Marquis, now 44, had asked that his conviction be overturned; but the Maine Supreme Judicial Court upheld the finding in a decision published Tuesday.

Local & State

Riverview social worker’s lawsuit over retaliation, unsafe conditions heads to trial

by Betty Adams March 20, 2018March 21, 2018

Jennifer Taghavidinani said she was subjected to whistleblower retaliation after filing complaints about unsafe working conditions at the state hospital in Augusta.