AUGUSTA — An Augusta man will spend the next two years behind bars for wielding a knife at two police officers responding to a domestic violence complaint that forced a predawn evacuation of an apartment building.
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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Popular program now based at Buker Community Center
AUGUSTA — A free educational after-school program has a new home in the city.
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Arson result: jail time
AUGUSTA — A man was sentenced Monday to 10 months in jail for setting a small fire in his own apartment building.
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Burglar gets jail; caught by owner
AUGUSTA — A burglar nabbed at gunpoint by the property owner from whom he was stealing metal will serve five years in prison for a string of offenses.
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Council, school board races set
WINTHROP — Winthrop voters will see contests for Town Council and the school board at the polls Nov. 8.
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Minivan driver pleads guilty to being drunk
AUGUSTA — A minivan driver who tried to flee from a Winthrop crash scene almost two years ago pleaded guilty last week in Kennebec County Superior Court to being drunk at the time of the accident.
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Seniors value as volunteers touted
AUGUSTA — Economic forecaster Laurie Lachance suggested members of the Senior College at the University of Maine at Augusta could improve life for themselves and others in Maine by volunteering to work with youngsters and teens and various civic groups, including historic preservation efforts.
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Court returns to Pownalborough
DRESDEN — The interests of justice will be served once again in the pre-Revolutionary Pownalborough Court House when the Maine Supreme Judicial Court hears arguments in two appeals cases there Oct. 12.
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Seniors urged to share their wisdom with youth
AUGUSTA — Economic forecaster Laurie Lachance suggested members of the Senior College at the University of Maine at Augusta could improve life for themselves and others in Maine by volunteering to work with youngsters and teens and various civic groups, including historic preservation efforts.
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Richmond fire injures boy, 9
RICHMOND — A young boy reportedly suffered burns over 60 percent of his body Sunday in a fire at his Road home.