In an unrelated case, a Mount Vernon man pleaded guilty to burglarizing a garage at a state trooper’s home in West Gardiner.
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.
Red Cloak tours in Hallowell pair history and mystery
Eerie anecdotes along the way get tour-takers to tell some of their own scary stories.
Rome sets special town meeting to accept conservationists’ funds
The money – $15,000 – would be applied to the fight against a proposed mountain cellphone tower.
Mayor calls Gardiner fire a ‘community disaster’; 4 injured, 12 displaced
An apartment tenant was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation and three firefighters were injured as businesses around 235 Water St. were ordered to evacuate after the fire spread to other buildings Thursday afternoon.
Driver had used heroin prior to fatal Readfield crash, court documents say
Thorr Dennis Ellis was held without bail Wednesday following his arrest on manslaughter and other charges concerning the death of a passenger, Alex Cruz of Connecticut.
Driver in fatal Readfield crash charged with manslaughter
Thorr Ellis was arrested Tuesday in connection with a November 2014 crash in Readfield that killed Alex Cruz, 26.
N.Y. man sentenced to 6 years for smuggling oxycodone into Maine
Police say the 28-year-old man brought drugs into the state weekly to sell in the midcoast.
Maine Human Rights Commission supports fired hotel worker’s retaliation claim
The panel also sides with a landlord in a housing discrimination case.
Waterville man gets 3 years for sucker-punching bouncer
The May 2013 attack in a nightclub parking lot left the bouncer blind in one eye.
Former Winslow woman gets prison time for embezzlement
Wendi Pond stole more than $60,000 in public assistance benefits and more than $10,000 from the Winslow Wrestling Boosters Club.