Betty Adams – Page 22 – The Portland Press Herald

Kennebec Journal

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.

Cops & Courts

Maine Supreme Judicial Court rules in favor of Waterville sex offender in probation appeal

by Betty Adams December 12, 2017December 12, 2017

The Law Court, as it also is known, ruled that the state had failed to prove that Cory Kibbe was still on probation when the state said he violated its terms.

Cops & Courts

Waterville man in armed standoff was being evicted from apartment

by Betty Adams December 11, 2017December 12, 2017

In a search of Michael Joslyn’s apartment, police say they found a ‘HiPoint, semi-automatic, 40-caliber handgun and several magazines.’

Schools and Education

Panel vote supports retired Jay teacher’s age discrimination, retaliation claims

by Betty Adams December 11, 2017December 11, 2017

Michael J. Henry had complained against Regional School Unit 73, saying the district’s actions created ‘conditions for possible dismissal in what was otherwise an unsullied career.’