Neighboring property owners can’t agree on whether a right of way exists to allow one homeowner access to Jamaica Point Road.
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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Augusta man convicted of sexually assaulting child argues police used ‘excessive friendliness’ during questioning
Andrew Seamon, 50, of Augusta, is telling the Maine Supreme Judicial Court that his statements to a detective should have been suppressed because he was vulnerable.
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Riverview patient committed for 1969 killing in Portland seeks release
In arguments Tuesday before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, an attorney for Donald Beauchene, 73, said he hasn’t been violent in nearly 40 years and should be let out of a state psychiatric hospital.
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Augusta woman who embezzled $400K from pulp & paper group ordered to keep paying restitution
Wendy L. Gagne, 43, has been ordered to pay $200 a month toward the balance of $352,082, after she was convicted in 2002 of writing hundreds of checks to herself and recorded them as being sent to vendors.
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Maine’s highest court to hear Viles, Hoover cases this week in Augusta
Several local, high-profile cases will be heard by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court starting Tuesday.
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Trust fund from Logan Marr’s death to pay for sister’s college
Bailey Charest, now an honor student at Lewiston High School, was in a Chelsea home when her 5-year-old sister was killed there.
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Keschl returning as Belgrade town manager
He was the unanimous choice of the selectmen to replace Carrie Castonguay, who is heading to New Gloucester.
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Readfield candidates’ night set for Monday
Three people are running unopposed for seats on the Selectboard or the school board.
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Phoning girlfriend from Augusta jail costs inmate 20 months
Derek D. Taylor, 33, of Norridgewock, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Augusta to violating conditions of release.
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Belgrade man who admits sexually abusing children to serve more than 6 years in jail
Jacob Hastings, 28, was sentenced Tuesday at the Capital Judicial Center, where family members of the victims gathered to watch the proceeding.