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
July 7, 2012

Public hearing on courthouse could include vote

AUGUSTA — The expansion of the Kennebec County Courthouse — essentially a new building with a connector to the second story of the existing courthouse — will be the topic of a public hearing Tuesday by the city Planning Board.
Published
July 7, 2012

Convicted man charged with OUI

AUGUSTA — In 1988, Timothy J. Sharkey pleaded guilty to criminal homicide for being behind the wheel in a fatal crash on Old Brunswick Road in Bath.
Published
July 6, 2012

Lance DiPietro guilty of assault

AUGUSTA — Lance A. DiPietro, an uncle of missing toddler Ayla Reynolds, of Waterville, was convicted Thursday of an assault that occurred in February and was apparently related to allegationsthat the toddler’s father, his brother, was involved in her disappearance.
Published
July 4, 2012

Hein pleads guilty, gets 7 days in jail

AUGUSTA — A losing Republican candidate in the June 12 primary for the Legislature pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of willful violation of the Maine Clean Election Act and was sentenced to seven days in jail.
Published
July 4, 2012

Michael Hein sentenced to 7 days in jail

A losing Republican candidate in the June 12 primary for the Legislature pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of willful violation of the Maine Clean Election Act.
Published
July 4, 2012

Man pleads guilty in pharmacy heists

AUGUSTA — A 19-year-old city man pleaded guilty Tuesday to robbing two pharmarcies in the capital a week apart last February.
Published
July 3, 2012

Oakland woman pleads guilty to Longstaff burglary

AUGUSTA — A Waterville legislator’s wife who confronted a burglar last April asked that the woman receive help and treatment — and both the court and the burglar listened.
Published
July 3, 2012

Augusta area events set for July 4th

AUGUSTA — Two sisters, Genie Gannett and Terry Gannett Hopkins, will serve as grand marshals for the city’s annual Fourth of July parade.
Published
July 3, 2012

‘I hope she will make better choices’

AUGUSTA — A Waterville legislator’s wife who confronted a burglar last April asked that the woman receive help and treatment — and both the court and the burglar listened.
Published
July 2, 2012

After 44 years, Maine radio personality off the air

For the past two weeks, morning radio personality Don Brown has slept in until 6 a.m. — three hours later than usual.