The torch is one of three making their way to Los Angeles for the start of the World Summer Games.
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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Special Olympics torch run kicks off in Augusta
More than 100 people gathered between the State House and Burton Cross State Office Building for the kickoff Tuesday morning, hearing Gov. Paul LePage read a proclamation about the event.
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It’s time for 1888 Maine outhouse to go
The Vienna Union Hall Association tries online fundraising to support a modern replacement.
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Augusta man sentenced in steak knife attack
The victim suffered wounds to the jugular vein, chest and arm in the assault in September.
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Gardiner man pleads not guilty to two pharmacy robberies
Rudger S. Ellis, 22, is accused of robbing pharmacies in Gardiner and Augusta.
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Augusta man sentenced in Bangor federal court for pharmacy robbery
Dominic J. Pomerleau, 22, was described by the judge as a “one-man crime spree.”
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Defendants prevail in lawsuit over fatal crash in Gardiner
A judge ruled that the icy weather was responsible for the crash that left two men dead.
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Chronic Lyme disease sufferers find resources, measure of comfort
A support group that meets monthly in Manchester provides catharsis and compassion.
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Stanley Sproul, former Augusta mayor and legislator, dies at 95
His legacy includes the Augusta Civic Center and Mayfair neighborhood.
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New sentencing hearing ordered in Riverview assault conviction
Mark P. Murphy, 49, will be re-sentenced for an attack on a mental health worker that left her with a pen tip embedded in her hand.