Doug Harlow

Morning Sentinel

Doug Harlow is a veteran Morning Sentinel reporter now covering Skowhegan municipal government and police, court activity and general news from around Somerset County. In his spare time he raises chickens for eggs, cayenne peppers, fingerling potatoes, garlic and other organic vegetables with his wife, Mary Lou, who also maintains lovely flower gardens. Their little farm also produces maple syrup and heritage apples. Doug and Mary Lou moved to Maine in 1987 Doug, a Stone Soup Society poet and cab driver in Boston in the 1970s, was hired as a contracted correspondent for the Sentinel in January, 1988. His interests include baseball, especially the Boston Red Sox, and feeding the wild birds that visit them in the winter.

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Published
March 24, 2016

Maple Fest starts Friday in Skowhegan

Sugar houses to open Saturday and Maine Maple Sunday because of Easter falling on the same day.
Published
March 23, 2016

Skowhegan officials meet with legislators on Sappi tax agreement

Meetings on Wednesday in Augusta were scheduled hastily after the town and Sappi reached tentative agreement Tuesday on a drop in the mill’s tax valuation.
Published
March 22, 2016

Skowhegan, Sappi, agree on assessment for taxation on paper mill

A reduction of $64 million in valuation means $1.2 million less in taxes in the coming year to save jobs.
Published
March 22, 2016

Third annual Abner Coburn Day in Skowhegan honors one-time governor, philanthropist, industrialist

Coburn’s offer to build a courthouse moved the Somerset County seat from Norridgewock to Skowhegan in 1872.
Published
March 22, 2016

Wiscasset woman who died on U.S. Route 201 well known in West Forks

The Hills’ camp is a family gathering place where Kimberly Hill’s parents and children shared time and which Hill enjoyed.
Published
March 21, 2016

Third annual Abner Coburn Day is Tuesday in Skowhegan

Coburn was governor of Maine during part of the Civil War and made sure Skowhegan would be the county seat instead of Norridgewock.
Published
March 20, 2016

Skowhegan’s Somerset Grist Mill to expand, get more food

The Pickup Cafe will close, regroup, change its name and reopen in May.
Published
March 17, 2016

Trio indicted on charges stemming from February heroin bust in Palmyra

Kevin Cookson, of Newport, and Melissa Collamore and Eric Hamilton, both of Palmyra, are among those indicted by a Somerset County grand jury this month.
Published
March 17, 2016

Thorndike to elect selectmen Saturday

Three selectmen will be elected from floor of the Town Meeting, while bonds for paving and changes to local ordinances also are on the agenda.
Published
March 16, 2016

Detroit voters to weigh road name change, driveway policy

Voters at Town Meeting on Saturday will be asked to change the name of a town road and to enact a driveway entrances and culvert policy.