WAYNE — The design of the Wayne Town House, with plank benches running along each side of the building and resting on an inclined plane floor, was determined by residents at a town meeting in 1839.
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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In Wayne, a return to simple beauty
WAYNE — The design of the Wayne Town House, with plank benches running along each side of the building and resting on an inclined plane floor, was determined by residents at a town meeting in 1839.
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Winthrop couple sues for lot access
WINTHROP — A Winthrop couple who went to court once to gain access to their property are back there again, this time suing the town.
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Woman dies in Vienna crash
VIENNA — A Jay woman was killed Thursday morning when the car she was a passenger in slid off a snow-covered road and crashed into a tree, police said.
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Vienna crash kills Jay woman, injures husband
VIENNA — A Jay woman was killed Thursday morning when the car she was a passenger in slid off a snow-covered road and crashed into a tree, police said.
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Thriving as a family
GARDINER — The distinctive green and yellow delivery trucks of Pine State Trading Co. are familiar sights on roads in Maine, the rest of New England and New York.
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Crash kills one in Vienna
VIENNA — A Jay woman was killed this morning in a single vehicle crash on Town House Road shortly after snow began to blanket the roadway. Patricia Tardif, 74, was a passenger in a 2009 Suzuki sedan driven by her husband, Alfred Tardif, 51, when the vehicle, which was traveling south, went off the road […]
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Woman gets sentence for embezzling
AUGUSTA — It was the betrayal, not the loss of money, that smarted.
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Woman pleads guilty to conspiracy in Manchester home invasion case
AUGUSTA — A city woman has pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal conspiracy in connection with a home invasion last year in Manchester.
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Food bank moves into bigger home
WINDSOR — The Windsor Food Bank has a new, larger home after occupying cramped quarters in the Town Office for about 15 years.