Betty Adams

Kennebec Journal

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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Published
August 30, 2012

Whitefield man gets sentence for drug ring role

A Whitefield man who is one of five defendants charged federally with conspiracy to distribute oxycodone was sentenced Thursday to 40 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
Published
August 28, 2012

Kennebec Superior Court: Judge reduces bail for robbery suspect

AUGUSTA — A judge on Tuesday cut bail in half, to $25,000 cash, for a city man charged with robbing two CVS pharmacies in Augusta.
Published
August 28, 2012

Readfield murder suspect in court on additional charges

AUGUSTA — A defendant awaiting trial on a murder charge made an initial court appearance Tuesday on charges of assaulting a jail guard, aggravated criminal mischief and terrorizing.
Published
August 28, 2012

Readfield man takes roundabout route to PhD

Studying traffic circles runs in the family of Nathan Belz, who grew up in Readfield. Belz, 28, is a doctorate candidate at the University of Vermont. A cousin, Darryl Belz, is a traffic engineer with the state Department of Transportation and helped design the traffic circles that will be used to make Interstate 95’s Exit 113 function in all directions.
Published
August 27, 2012

MaineGeneral plans online auction for two of its campuses

MaineGeneral Medical Center plans to sell its Augusta hospital campus and Seton campus in Waterville.
Published
August 27, 2012

Perfect day opens Windsor Fair

WINDSOR — Blue skies, cheerful vendors and squawking chickens greeted attendees Sunday for the opening day of the Windsor Fair.
Published
August 26, 2012

Humane Society tries to ’empty the shelter’

AUGUSTA — The speed-dating tent had a few signs over prospective suitors:
Published
August 24, 2012

State workers union backs Cynthia Dill for Senate

The Maine State Employees Association Local 1989 Service Employees International Union picked Cynthia Dill, a Democratic state legislator from Cape Elizabeth, and Thursday she came to the local’s State Street headquarters to get the nod in person.
Published
August 24, 2012

Fatigue likely cause of Route 17 accident

FAYETTE — A Belgrade man likely fell asleep on his way to work early Thursday morning when the car he was driving crashed on Route 17, police said.
Published
August 23, 2012

Maine State Employees union endorses Dill

AUGUSTA — When the time came to endorse candidates for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Olympia Snowe, the union that represents 15,000 of the state’s public and private employees had two choices.