While the profession has grown slowly, 3,000 more nurses will be needed in 2016, the state says.
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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Panel finds Clinton man has grounds for discrimination suit
Stephen Dostie says Associated Grocers of Maine cut his job after he filed a disability claim.
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State workers union sues for longevity pay
The Maine State Employees Association has sued the state in federal court to try to get members reimbursed for longevity pay they lost during this past fiscal year.
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Man pleads not guilty in coffee shop arson
The bail stays at $1 million for Raymond Bellavance Jr., accused of burning down a topless coffee shop.
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Coffee shop arson suspect says he’s not guilty
The man charged with burning down the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop in Vassalboro in June 2009 pleaded not guilty Tuesday to two counts of arson.
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Arsonist sentenced in Gardiner mill fire
AUGUSTA — A 20-year-old will spend an initial 2 1/2 years behind bars for destroying a landmark Gardiner mill in a spectacular fire on Sept. 2, 2009, but he won’t pay any of the more than $100,000 restitution.
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Fire displaces 10 in Hallowell
HALLOWELL — An early morning fire in an apartment building today left 10 people displaced and one woman taken into protective custody by police. No one was injured in the fire. Ken Grimes, an investigator with the State Fire Marshal’s Office, said the fire was reported at 4:42 a.m. and started in a rear 2nd […]
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State denies convicted killer’s release petition
Jeffrey Libby, who links his grandfather’s slaying to abuse by a priest, plans to appeal to the governor.
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Testimony on suicide fence shows that it has an effect
AUGUSTA – The fence atop Memorial Bridge has worked at least once to prevent suicide, authorities say. On Aug. 5, 2009, it deterred a court-committed patient at the Riverview Psychiatric Center from jumping into the Kennebec River, according to police. The testimony came during a hearing Friday in Kennebec County Superior Court to determine whether […]
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Fortune gets life in prison for machete attack
AUGUSTA — Daniel Fortune will spend the rest of his life in prison for his role in a predawn home invasion that left a father and his 10-year-old daughter maimed. Fortune, 22, of Augusta was sentenced today in Kennebec County Superior Court for the harm he did to the family of former legislator William Guerrette […]