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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PublishedJune 3, 2012
A crowd cut from the same cloth
Hundreds hit the Maine Fiber Frolic Saturday to enjoy wooly animals and the creativity they inspire.
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PublishedMay 30, 2012
Employee bias suit against MaineGeneral set for Aug. 7 trial
MaineGeneral is accused of discriminating against a West Gardiner man due to his age and disability.
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PublishedMay 27, 2012
MaineGeneral plans to trim 47 positions
The hospital’s reductions in staff are directly tied to the legislative funding cut which takes effect July 1.
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PublishedMay 16, 2012
Fairfield union fund says administrator stole $260,000
Trustees of a Fairfield union’s trust fund say an administrator who died in a car accident earlier this year had stolen the money to cover up a theft from an Augusta union.
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PublishedMay 9, 2012
Bankrupt Augusta oil company details finances
Customers who had prepaid for fuel oil from Pinkham’s Fuel Corner learn in a bankruptcy hearing that they are unlikely to get much if any compensation.
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PublishedMay 8, 2012
Augusta man accused of robbing 2 pharmacies
Carmine A. Fazzi Jr., 19, of Augusta was recently extradited to Maine from New York to face the charges.
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PublishedMay 2, 2012
Girl, 13, cleared of arson in school bathroom fire
A judge finds the Vassalboro Community School student not responsible for a fire that forced the evacuation of 500 students and caused smoke and water damage.
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PublishedMay 1, 2012
Colleagues give cancer-stricken warden new roof
Monday was a good day for Maj. Gregg Sanborn of the Maine Warden Service . . .
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PublishedApril 26, 2012
Jury deliberates fate of Blaine House Occupy protesters
A jury will resume deliberating today in the case of five people charged with criminal trespass at the governor’s residence.
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PublishedApril 26, 2012
UPDATE: Mistrial declared in Blaine House protest trial
AUGUSTA — A mistrial was declared today in the trial of five defendants charged with criminal trespass for allegedly failing to follow police orders to leave the Blaine House grounds during a protest last November.
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