The fire on Friendship Drive was reported about 5 p.m. Monday and is not considered suspicious.
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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Drug trafficking charges filed against man following Augusta arrest
Alex Brumfield, who had been living in Windsor and Augusta, was one of a number of people indicted Friday by a Kennebec County grand jury.
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Belgrade puts road project enhancement funds on the ballot
The March 17 ballot vote asks whether voters want to accept a gift of the money raised by the Friends of Belgrade Lakes Village.
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Gardiner girl wins $25,000 Horatio Alger scholarship
Sierra Goodridge, 18, decided to learn about mental illness after her father committed suicide five years ago.
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Leroy Smith III, accused of killing father in Gardiner apartment, wants his day in court
Smith was in court Friday for a hearing on whether he is mentally competent to stand trial in the May 2014 death of Leroy Smith Jr.
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Jury finds Oakland woman not guilty of 2 charges of unlawful sexual contact with children
Eleven of 12 jurors voted to find Conway guilty of a gross sexual assault charge, but one holdout prevented a conviction, according to juror Debra Lamontagne, of Oakland.
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Riverview patient pleads guilty to assaulting four workers
Arlene Edson, who is suing the state in federal court over an incident in which she was pepper-sprayed and left for hours without treatment, will serve four years behind bars.
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Jury to continue deliberations Thursday in child sex abuse case against former Oakland woman
Late Wednesday, jurors sent a note to the judge saying they were having trouble agreeing on the case against Sarah B. Conway, who is accused of abusing two young children sexually.
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Former Oakland woman on trial on charges of sexually abusing young boy, girl
The first witness Tuesday was her former boyfriend, now serving 18 years behind bars for sexual assaulting those same children.
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Maine State Prison inmate says he was denied right to vote
The city says Raishawn Key, 35, didn’t provide adequate proof he lived in Augusta before he was convicted of cocaine trafficking.