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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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  • Published
    April 11, 2011

    Funding running out for court program

    AUGUSTA — The graduation this week of five more people from the intensive supervision of a special court program proved bittersweet to the judge who has presided over it.

  • Published
    April 10, 2011

    Bids to be given for restoration, road sand, more

    HALLOWELL — Awarding a bid for restoration of the Dr. John Hubbard 1833 office will be one of the jobs for City Council at its meeting, 6 p.m. Monday at City Hall.

  • Published
    April 9, 2011

    Woman admits to burglarizing homes

    AUGUSTA — A 29-year-old woman repeated “guilty” 48 times in Kennebec County Superior Court as she admitted burglarizing a number of home in 2009 and 2010 in Kennebec and Oxford counties.

  • Published
    April 9, 2011

    Woman guilty in dozens of thefts

    AUGUSTA — A 29-year-old woman repeated “guilty” 48 times in Kennebec County Superior Court as she admitted burglarizing a number of home in 2009 and 2010 in Kennebec and Oxford counties.

  • Published
    April 6, 2011

    Embezzlement suspect lived as virtual ‘Queenie’

    Bettysue Higgins, 53, of Gardiner, stands accused of embezzling $166,000 from the Maine Trial Lawyers Association during a four-year period.

  • Published
    April 6, 2011

    Portland man faces charges in jailtime unemployment

    AUGUSTA — Allegedly collecting $3,000 in unemployment checks while serving a jail sentence has landed a Portland man in more legal trouble.

  • Published
    April 6, 2011

    School could be closed to solve budget problem

    WINTHROP — Buildings, building wings, and just about everything else is on the table as the Winthrop Board of Education continues to work to trim some $1 million from the budget proposed for the upcoming year.

  • Published
    April 5, 2011

    ‘Low-achieving’ label prompts board meeting

    WALES — The board of education has set a special meeting 6:30 p.m. Thursday to discuss Oak Hill High School’s designation as a “persistently low-achieving school.”

  • Published
    April 5, 2011

    Suspect indicted in slaying of man who took him in

    A grand jury indicts a 32-year-old Massachusetts man on a charge of murder in the Feb. 8 shooting death of Robert A. “Bobby” Orr of Readfield.

  • Published
    April 3, 2011

    Financing new regional hospital may be tricky

    AUGUSTA — Borrowing the money to build new regional hospital is quite unlike borrowing the money to buy a home.