AUGUSTA — Legal troubles continue for Patsy A. Rollins, the former Manchester town clerk imprisoned for forging residents’ signatures on U.S. Postal Service cards in August 2000.
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.
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The Market rushes, opens for business
HALLOWELL — A new market opened Friday next door to the defunct Boynton’s Market — just in time for today’s Old Hallowell Day celebration.
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MacMaster gets 18 months in jail
AUGUSTA — A former captain with the Augusta Fire Department was ordered to serve a year and a half in prison for having sex with a 15-year-old girl at his Manchester home between April 2007 and April 2008.
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Ex Augusta fire official gets 1 1/2 years for sex offense
AUGUSTA — A former captain with the Augusta Fire Department was ordered to serve a year and a half in prison as part of his sentence for having sex with a 15-year-old girl at his home in Manchester between April 2007 and April 2008. Robert G. MacMaster, 40, now of Lincoln, was convicted by a […]
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Ned’s Place owner to pay $30k restitution
AUGUSTA — The last owner of Ned’s Place, a downtown Winthrop restaurant until March 2007, must pay $30,568 restitution after pleading guilty Wednesday to failing to pay sales and withholding taxes to the state over several years.
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More freedom for state patients
AUGUSTA — A judge on Tuesday approved proposals to reduce supervision of two people committed to state custody after being found not criminally responsible for killing a family member.
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Petrucelly can seek work
AUGUSTA — A judge on Tuesday approved proposals to reduce supervision of two people committed to state custody after being found not criminally responsible for killing a family member.
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Roadwork scheduled to begin on US 202
Motorists traveling U.S. Route 202 between Augusta and Winthrop will soon encounter evidence of roadwork, but officials say a minimum of disruption, as a repaving job gets under way on four miles of the major east-west corridor.
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Summer superintendent a familiar face
WINTHROP — A familiar face is filling in this summer as interim superintendent for the Winthrop and Fayette consolidated school district.
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Judge hears Lottery fight
AUGUSTA — The company that won the multiyear, $35 million state lottery contract in September, then lost it two months later after a competitor appealed, urged a judge Thursday to reinstate the original award.