AUGUSTA — After eight days of testimony, the trial of a man accused of burning down the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop is winding down.
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 Bellavance trial, defense takes aim at jealousy argument
AUGUSTA — A waitress at the former Grand View Topless Coffee Shop said Tuesday that the man accused of burning the business was not jealous of her relationships with other men, including the shop’s owner.
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Waitress: Arson suspect not jealous of other relationships
AUGUSTA — A waitress at the former Grand View Topless Coffee Shop said Tuesday that the man accused of burning the business was not jealous of her relationships with other men, including the shop’s owner.
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Bank, vendors split on Associated Grocers money
Eight months after the Gardiner-based Associated Grocers of Maine cooperative closed, vendors and a bank are squabbling over some $3.3 million while former employees say they have not received a penny of severance, vacation or any other benefit from their former employer.
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Fight continues over what’s left of shut supplier
Eight months after the Gardiner-based Associated Grocers of Maine cooperative closed, vendors and a bank are squabbling over some $3.3 million while former employees say they have not received a penny of severance, vacation or any other benefit from their former employer.
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‘I saw a swoosh,’ says witness in Bellavance trial
AUGUSTA — A witness who graduated this week from a drug rehabilitation program in jail testified Friday that he watched Raymond Bellavance Jr. pour gasoline behind the Grand View Topless Coffee shop in Vassalboro and then set it ablaze with his lighter.
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Witness: I saw Bellavance light fire
AUGUSTA — A witness who graduated this week from a drug rehabilitation program in jail testified Friday that he watched Raymond Bellavance Jr. pour gasoline behind the Grand View Topless Coffee shop in Vassalboro and then set it ablaze with his lighter.
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In topless coffee shop trial, state paints picture of jealousy
AUGUSTA — Raymond Bellavance Jr. was attracted to Grand View Topless Coffee Shop waitress Krista MacIntyre because of the good sex he had with her, according to an arson investigator who interviewed Bellavance several months after a fire destroyed the shop.
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State agent describes talk with arson suspect
AUGUSTA — Raymond Bellavance Jr. was attracted to Grand View Topless Coffee Shop waitress Krista MacIntyre because of the good sex he had with her, according to an arson investigator who interviewed Bellavance several months after a fire destroyed the shop.
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Bellavance said he did it, says witness
AUGUSTA — Raymond Bellavance confessed several times to setting the fire that destroyed the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop, a woman who described herself as a former girlfriend testified in court Tuesday.