TOGUS — Nothing disturbed the peaceful rank and file of white headstones at the west section of Togus National Cemetery at 11 a.m. Saturday.
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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Wreaths, ribbons adorn veterans’ headstones
TOGUS — Nothing disturbed the peaceful rank and file of white headstones at the west section of Togus National Cemetery at 11 a.m. Saturday.
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Jury set in coffee shop trial
AUGUSTA — It took all day Friday to select 16 people — nine women and seven men — from Kennebec County who will hear evidence at a trial scheduled to begin next week in which a Winthrop man is accused burning down the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop in Vassalboro.
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Topless coffee shop jury picked
AUGUSTA — It took all day Friday to select 16 people — nine women and seven men — from Kennebec County who will hear evidence at a trial scheduled to begin next week in which a Winthrop man is accused burning down the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop in Vassalboro.
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Probation revoked for 3 criminals
AUGUSTA — Three men convicted of serious crimes between 2006 and 2008 will spend additional years behind bars.
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Randolph man indicted in April bar shooting
AUGUSTA — A Randolph man is free on bail after he was indicted on charges alleging that he shot a man in the leg outside an Augusta bar early earlier this year.
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More sex charges for former Gardiner man
AUGUSTA — A former Gardiner man previously convicted of sexually touching children while he baby-sat them was indicted last week on two more sex charges.
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Business burglar given 33 months
AUGUSTA — A burglar who frequently targeted businesses around his Waterville home was sentenced Thursday in Kennebec County Superior Court.
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Forums give RSU 4 parents chance to hear about initiative
WALES — Parents of public school students in Litchfield, Sabattus and Wales can learn about the new customized learning program in public forums set for today and Wednesday.
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City expects crowd for sewer rate proposal
GARDINER — City officials are expecting that a proposal to change the way sewer rates are charged in Gardiner could attract droves of people to a public hearing Wednesday.