The prosecution said the offense occurred last summer at a campground in Wayne.
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.
Riverview patient loses appeal to get out of state custody
Jason Begin, who was shot by an Augusta police officer in January 2015, has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, ADHD, pedophilia and other illnesses.
Tall Sidney pine splits; half falls onto Parlin family home
The parents had just signed papers selling the Quaker Road home to their son and his wife.
Winthrop double homicide, Kennebec sheriff’s race among 2016 top local stories
Others include a successful effort to recall a Litchfield selectman and the demolition of T.W. Dick buildings in Gardiner.
Belgrade gains new town clerk, loses Selectboard member
Cheryl Cook, who retired as town clerk more than two years ago, will return to that job on part-time basis.
Mass. man arrested in Augusta on drug trafficking charge
Police say Jaime Brea, 50, was bringing heroin from Massachusetts to sell in Augusta.
Augusta house fills with smoke from chimney blockage
A battalion chief says the two-unit building on Winthrop Court can be reoccupied when heat is restored.
Former court system manager in Augusta glad to be back in U.S. after Madagascar tour
The Bowdoinham woman who gave up her job to hit the road has no regrets — save a paycheck.
Augusta attorney admonished for talking to witness
Darrick Banda violated the rules by answering a question from a domestic violence victim, according to the complaint.
Pittston man in court on ATV manslaughter charge
Halee Cummings, 18, of Sidney was a passenger when the vehicle went off the road and crashed.