Plans are to take the 1815 building, add a basement and other improvements to make it into a headquarters.
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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Short-staffed Maine jails scramble to find, and keep, corrections officers
The workplace is challenging, the overtime is demanding and the hiring process is sluggish, and that is leaving jails with vacant positions.
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North Pond Hermit does not owe for road repairs done by Maine State Police
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court supports Christopher Knight’s contention that he should not be required to pay $1,125 restitution for the work.
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Defendant in Manchester double murder case found guilty of terrorizing
David W. Marble of Rochester, New York, pleads no contest to a charge of threatening a corrections officer.
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Waterville man pleads guilty to raping 73-year-old neighbor
One of the charges to which Mark D. Halle pleads carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison.
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Former coach at St. Dominic Academy goes to prison for cocaine trafficking
A sting leads to the arrest of John Brissette and the seizure of 110 grams of cocaine and close to $2,000.
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Readfield’s 92-year-old cyclist has smiles to go
He continues to climb mountains, bike and swim in Lovejoy Pond.
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New York man sentenced to 7 years for selling heroin in Maine
Prosecutors say agents witnessed drugs handed out through a window at an apartment in Oakland.
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Augusta man sentenced to 50 years for killing girlfriend
Justin Pillsbury, 41, had argued that he acted in self-defense when he stabbed Jillian T. Jones 12 times in 2013.
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Kennebec County Jail institutes screening process
The new access policy requiring screening of professionals rankles a local lawyer who was refused entry Monday.