Youngsters and adults all participated in the craft-making.
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.
Posted inMaine Crime, Schools and Education
Gardiner elementary school PTA treasurer stole $6,000, police say
Cassie Marrow, 34, of Gardiner, has been summoned on a felony theft charge in connection with the alleged embezzlement, police said Thursday.
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Posted inLocal & State, Town Government
Belgrade voters face town races on March 16 ballot
Contested races include a one-year term on the Select Board and a one-year road commissioner’s term.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Pittston man accused of hitting pedestrian with car in BMV parking lot
One person was treated at the Augusta hospital after the incident in a Bureau of Motor Vehicles parking lot off Hospital Street in Augusta, police said.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Augusta man sentenced on burglary, theft charges from 2016
Cullen Penney, 22, was removed from a specialty court program for people with substance abuse and mental health problems designed to spare him more imprisonment.
Posted inMaine Crime
Waterville man to spend two years in prison for cocaine trafficking
Ernest Green was sentenced Thursday at the Capital Judicial Center after being convicted of selling drugs near a public park designated as a safe zone.
Posted inCops & Courts, Local & State, Maine Crime
Winthrop man had more than 9 grams of heroin, prosecutor says
Benjamin York was initially held on $150,000 bail on a drug trafficking charge; the amount was reduced to $5,000 on Monday.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine Crime
Augusta man indicted in attack on fellow inmate at Kennebec County jail
Elijah Ashley’s aggravated assault charge carries a maximum of 30 years’ imprisonment.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine Crime
Augusta convenience store robber imprisoned for four years
Anthony Manganella, of Windsor, pleaded guilty to the Thanksgiving Day 2017 holdup at Augusta Kwik Mart, saying he wasn’t in his ‘right mind.’
Posted inMaine Crime
Gardiner teacher charged in sexual assault gets lower bail amid fear of retaliation
John Glowa Jr., of Mount Vernon, was expected to be released from jail later Thursday on $15,000 cash or $30,000 worth of property even as the prosecutor expressed concern about his access to guns.