A nine-site tour in Wayne gives visitors an intimate look at some unique Maine residences.
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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Defense seeks to move Chelsea corruption trial
The lawyer for former Chelsea selectman Carole Swan also asks the court to suppress some of the evidence collected by investigators.
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Augusta flooding ends as Kennebec retreats
AUGUSTA — Public works employees hosed down the Front Street parking lot to remove mud left by the receding Kennebec River. The river overflowed its banks Monday afternoon rising to 14 feet – 2 feet above flood stage – and retreated by 6 a.m. today, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Augusta police had […]
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Pine State buys Associated Grocers property
Pine State Trading Co. of Augusta is the new owner of the former Associated Grocers of Maine distribution property in Gardiner.
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Child porn charge against ex-teacher dropped
AUGUSTA — A former Monmouth teacher who was arrested in June and charged with possessing sexual explicit material of minors is no longer facing that charge.
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Big moose greets visitors at service plaza
The 9-foot-tall Fiberglas moose has become a photo favorite.
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Official: Court supervision of Riverview not necessary
Additional funding allows the state’s mental health facility to move patients out in a timely manner.
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Former town clerk cites poverty
AUGUSTA — A former Manchester town clerk who spent more than a year in prison for forging residents’ signatures is penniless and cannot afford to pay $80,000 owed to the town’s insurer.
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Vandals hit transfer station
LITCHFIELD — Vandals broke into the Litchfield Transfer Station office last week, severing all the electrical cords to render machinery useless, strewing photos of Elaine Carpenter’s grandchildren all over the floor and netting $8.
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$276M for construction turned over
AUGUSTA — MaineGeneral Medical Center took receipt Thursday of some $276 million in bonded funds for construction of a new regional hospital in north Augusta.