The accident, which occurred about noon Saturday, forced police to close Bond Brook 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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Litchfield woman jailed 120 days for welfare theft
Kelly J. Burgess, 49, indicated that the father of her children was not living with her and not contributing to the household, even though he was, according to court documents.
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Augusta murder defendant pleads no contest to vehicle break-ins, thefts
Michael Sean McQuade is to be sentenced on those charges later, and he probably will go to trial on the murder charge in November 2017.
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Readfield selectman staying on after making comment about resigning
Thomas Dunham said he is ‘not ready’ to resign following a disagreement over awarding a contract.
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Judge retains 60-year sentence for child rapist Wade Hoover
The 38-year-old former martial arts instructor from Augusta raped two boys under age 12 in Kennebec and Somerset counties from December 2008 to April 2012 and recorded those attacks.
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Local Pokémon Go players offended by Hallowell sign calling them morons
A Water Street business owner and landlord said he’s tired of the players trespassing on his private property.
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Maine’s former top drug prosecutor loses child porn sentence appeal
James M. Cameron, formerly of Hallowell and Rome, challenged the 189-month sentence, saying lower courts made procedural and substantive errors; but a 1st U.S. Circuit of Appeals panel upheld it.
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Child rapist from Augusta seeks reduction in 60-year sentence
A hearing in Wade R. Hoover’s bid to reduce his 60-year prison sentence is set for Wednesday at the Capital Judicial Center in Augusta.
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Waterville robber to serve one year behind bars
Alison Thomas, 36, pleaded guilty to robbing man at knifepoint while demanding drugs and money.
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Waterville drug trafficking costs Connecticut man six years in prison
Ronald B. Williams was sentenced Thursday at the Capital Judicial Center after police surveillance and confidential informant drug buys at a multi-unit Waterville apartment building known as The Beehive.