AUGUSTA — A former Manchester town clerk who spent more than a year in prison for forging residents’ signatures is penniless and cannot afford to pay $80,000 owed to the town’s insurer.
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.
Posted inNews
Vandals hit transfer station
LITCHFIELD — Vandals broke into the Litchfield Transfer Station office last week, severing all the electrical cords to render machinery useless, strewing photos of Elaine Carpenter’s grandchildren all over the floor and netting $8.
advertisement
Posted inNews
Fun fair days
READFIELD — Dark haired, bright-eyed, 7-year-old Christopher Berls turned up for Readfield Heritage Days 2011 celebration in long blue jeans, looking to romp in the bounce house. Then he saw the attached water slide and promptly got in line.
Posted inNews
Feds kick in money to finish Augusta interstate exit
AUGUSTA — All the funding is in place to bring Exit 113 on Interstate 95 from half an interchange to a full one.
Posted inNews
Big step for new Kennebec County courthouse
AUGUSTA — The long-sought dream of a new Kennebec County courthouse is getting much closer to reality. When it rises, the hillside building could restructure views throughout the city center.
Posted inNews
Fund theft alleged from Pittston firefighters
AUGUSTA — A Pittston Fire Department captain stands accused of stealing more than $1,000 from the Pittston Firemen’s Association.
Posted inNews
Feds kick in funds for interstate exit
AUGUSTA — All the funding is in place to bring Exit 113 on Interstate 95 from half an interchange to a full one.
Posted inNews
Big step to new county courthouse
AUGUSTA — The long-sought dream of a new Kennebec County courthouse is getting much closer to reality. When it rises, the hillside building could restructure views throughout the city center.
Posted inNews
MaineGeneral work in full swing
AUGUSTA — MaineGeneral Medical Center took receipt Thursday of some $276 million in bonded funds for construction of a new regional hospital in north Augusta.
Posted inNews
$276M for construction turned over
AUGUSTA — MaineGeneral Medical Center took receipt Thursday of some $276 million in bonded funds for construction of a new regional hospital in north Augusta.