Rehabilitation work includes relocating it farther from Route 17.
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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Athens woman sentenced for Togus VA benefit fraud
Lisa-Marie T. Watson’s father-in-law was sentenced previously for the same conspiracy.
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Farmingdale bust results in trafficking charges against four people
Police said neighbors reported suspected illegal activity after seeing ‘heavy short-term traffic.’
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Lincoln County deputy’s trial on 22 sex abuse charges set to start Monday
Kenneth L. Hatch III, deputy of the year in 2015, is accused of abusing girls during ride-alongs in his cruiser.
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Belgrade rejects starting school withdrawal process
All three local referendum ballots had to be counted by hand, and some 1,112 people voted.
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Litchfield store crash, Hallowell break-in result in jail time
Two men pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated criminal mischief charges in the separate incidents.
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Winthrop man gets 30 months on 6th drunken driving conviction
The remainder of the 8-year term for Derek Bonenfant was suspended while he spends three years on probation.
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Winslow man indicted on armed robbery charge
Mark A. Kennedy, who has a prior robbery conviction from New York, is among those recently indicted by a Kennebec County grand jury.
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Wayne man pleads not guilty to manslaughter in drunken driving crash
Tyler J. Goucher, 22, is charged in connection with the crash in Mount Vernon in May, which killed Ethan Russell and injured Richard Hall.
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Augusta police seek ID of suspect in Sunday store robbery
The Big Apple convenience store on Civic Center Drive was robbed Sunday evening, the second time in a little over two weeks.