A snowdrift may have caused a crash Monday that involved four vehicles in the southbound lanes of the Maine Turnpike.
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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Jury awards $475,000 to Augusta man injured in fall from roof
Martin James Merrill, 54, who was removing Christmas lights at the time, claimed he fell because a contractor was negligent in placing equipment.
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Esther and Alan cap 27 years together with hospital wedding
The bridegroom, a sandblaster at Bath Iron Works, has been hospitalized with pneumonia and spent months in the critical care unit and in a coma.
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Maine to get $21.5 million from Standard & Poor’s
The multistate settlement ends a lawsuit accusing the credit-rating firm with unfair trade practices.
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Fire destroys barn, damages home in Whitefield
It’s the second major fire in just over a week in the small Lincoln County town.
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Farmingdale woman’s drug charges result in felony marijuana cultivation plea
Angie L. Sousa can withdraw that plea in a year and be convicted on a misdemeanor charge.
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Ex-Maine teacher sentenced to 50 more years for raping 3 boys
Patrik Ian Arsenault, 28, was sentenced last week to 65 years on federal child pornography charges.
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Family of 10 flees burning Whitefield home
The house is destroyed, one occupant burns her hand and another who ran out barefoot suffers frostbite.
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Ex-Riverview patient accused of furnishing drugs to outpatient
The allegation has cost Kristian McKay privileges including being allowed to live in an apartment.
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‘Predator’ seeks transfer from Maine State Prison to Riverview
Maine’s highest court may decide if Michael J. James should stay at the state prison’s mental health unit.