AUGUSTA — An attorney for Carole J. Swan, a former Chelsea selectman facing trial on a four-count indictment charging her with offenses related to that post, is asking a judge to force a road contractor and two banks to produce paperwork he says is critical to her defense.
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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Former teacher denies child porn charge
A former Monmouth Middle School fifth-grade teacher denies a charge that he had school laptops loaded with photographs depicting nude children in sexually explicit positions.
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Ex-legislator denies threatening man at gunpoint
Frederick L. Wintle formally entered not guilty pleas today to an indictment accusing him of holding a man at gunpoint in a Waterville parking lot last May.
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Town of Mount Vernon to pay for illegal tire dump
MOUNT VERNON — The town’s property owners will foot the bill for 200 tires illegally dumped down a hillside on Cottle Hill Road.
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Business owners sue Winthrop over culvert collapse
AUGUSTA — Owners of IRONX, a Winthrop business, are suing the town and former town manager Cornell Knight saying they are owed damages that occurred when a culvert between two lakes collapsed in late 2009 and flooded their storage premises.
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Tire dump will cost taxpayers
MOUNT VERNON — The town’s property owners will foot the bill for 200 tires illegally dumped down a hillside on Cottle Hill Road.
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Kennebec County turns to video help
AUGUSTA — A new set of short videos promotes Kennebec County as a place to live, work, study, play and even just tour.
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State takes man’s house; he’s not happy, not alone
AUGUSTA — Kenneth R. Bonsant built his home on Old Belgrade Road 48 years ago. He and his wife, Odette, raised two daughters there, and when Odette died in 1991, she was buried nearby at the Maine Veterans Memorial Cemetery.
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Kennebec County turns to video help
AUGUSTA — A new set of short videos promotes Kennebec County as a place to live, work, study, play and even just tour.
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Next to exit
AUGUSTA — Kenneth R. Bonsant built his home on Old Belgrade Road 48 years ago. He and his wife, Odette, raised two daughters there, and when Odette died in 1991, she was buried nearby at the Maine Veterans Memorial Cemetery.