Robert Drisko testifies former selectwoman charged with fraud “would work outside (of board meetings) to get her own way.”
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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Jury selected in trial of former Chelsea selectwoman
Carole Swan is charged with 10 counts of defrauding the federal government.
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Two Oakland women injured in Gardiner boat explosion
Vickie Massey and Liliane Davidson, both of Oakland, were injured Friday morning in an explosion aboard a boat in the Kennebec River that left the flaming craft floating on the tide before running aground in Pittston.
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Maine man sentenced for second child-porn offense
Barely a week off probation, a Monmouth man was caught with sexually explicit movies of children under 12.
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Litchfield fires its town manager
Michael Byron, who is also a city councilor in Augusta, was hired as town manager in Litchfield in January 2008.
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Blind woman celebrates 50th birthday with sky dive
Leona McKenna of Augusta made her first jump Saturday and she says the experience was life-affirming.
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Maine man heads to jail for ’80s sex crimes
A Corinna man pleads guilty to charges of gross sexual misconduct involving two girls in Winthrop more than a quarter-century ago.
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Fires put crunch on Augusta rentals
Besides the 26 destroyed by fire, more than two dozen other apartments were declared unfit for occupancy in the last year.
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N.Y. man pleads guilty to sexual contact with 2-year-old Maine girl
Lester House Good, 36, of Troupsberg, N.Y., had unlawful sexual contact with the Monmouth girl while he and his family visited relatives there.
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Augusta woman charged in Farmingdale armed robbery
Cynthia B. Chepke, 56, is accused in the January holdup at a Circle K.