Officials at Riverview Psychiatric Center admit to deficiencies, but vow to address those issues.
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.
The show might go on again at Augusta Colonial Theater
Thanks to sweat equity and maybe tax breaks, the hiatus could end at a historic venue.
Maine woman charged with aggravated sex trafficking
Gretchen L. Patrick of Litchfield allegedly promoted prostitution of a 17-year-old girl.
Litchfield woman faces felony sex trafficking charge
Police say Gretchen L. Patrick promoted the prostitution of a 17-year-old.
Clinton man sentenced to 18 months in prison for antiques theft
Peter V. Corson stole dozens of pens, bayonets and other items from a Benton antiques dealer, who told the judge that the the missing items were valued at $117,250.
China man to serve five months behind bars for nonpayment of taxes
Darren F. Carlton is ordered to pay restitution of $500 a month.
Bail set for Maine man charged with sex trafficking
Police raided the Sidney home of Frederick Horne Sr. in April while looking for evidence of prostitution.
Meetings scheduled on reducing hours at rural Maine post offices
The meetings will help determine the retail and lobby hours and whether they will be split between mornings and afternoons.
Workers maintain Riverview staffing problems continue
Current and former workers complain of staff bullying at the state mental health hospital.
Purse snatch suspect faces more charges
An alleged accomplice in a foiled purse snatching in the Augusta Wal-Mart says ‘older ladies’ are targets.