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
February 29, 2012

Waterville father pleads guilty to assault on crying daughter

AUGUSTA — A father on Tuesday admitted he shoved his 4-month-old daughter’s head into a cushion to stop her from crying last November.
Published
February 29, 2012

Father admits guilt in assault involving his crying daughter

AUGUSTA — A father on Tuesday admitted he shoved his 4-month-old daughter’s head into a cushion to stop her from crying last November.
Published
February 28, 2012

Small population raises big bucks for pond park

FAYETTE — The town, with a year-round population of 1,200, has managed to raise more than $30,000 in less than 10 weeks toward the creation of a public park on Hales Pond and Hales Brook.
Published
February 27, 2012

Rights panel’s conference space squeezed

AUGUSTA — The state is moving computer equipment into some or all of a conference room being used by the Maine Human Rights Commission, which just had its conference room rental budget slashed.
Published
February 25, 2012

Wescott didn’t pay taxes

AUGUSTA — Seth Wescott, the two-time Olympic snowboardcross gold medalist, recently faced arrest in connection with criminal charges of failure to pay thousands of dollars in state income taxes over a five-year period.
Published
February 25, 2012

State: Olympian Seth Wescott owed $42,000 in taxes

AUGUSTA — Seth Wescott, the two-time Olympic snowboardcross gold medalist, recently faced arrest in connection with criminal charges of failure to pay thousands of dollars in state income taxes over a five-year period.
Published
February 23, 2012

ATV river crash driver faces felony

AUGUSTA — One of two all-terrain vehicles that broke through the ice and sank last week in the Kennebec River had been reported stolen, and the operator now faces a felony charge.
Published
February 23, 2012

ATV that went into Kennebec had been stolen

AUGUSTA — One of two all-terrain vehicles that broke through the ice and sank last week in the Kennebec River had been reported stolen, and the operator now faces a felony charge.
Published
February 15, 2012

Two indicted for cigarette tax evasion

AUGUSTA — Two Somerset County men have been indicted on allegations that they sold cigarettes to customers that did not include tax stamps.
Published
February 14, 2012

Couple, sister indicted on more than 100 charges

AUGUSTA — An Augusta man, his girlfriend and his sister have been indicted on more than 100 criminal charges combined in connection with a string of burglaries last fall across central Maine.