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
January 11, 2016

Documentary about Maine’s disappearing ski hills focuses on community

New Portland filmmaker Joel Osgood’s ‘1000 Feet and Below’ premieres Wednesday at The Rack at Sugarloaf.
Published
January 9, 2016

Somerset County court security officer goes extra mile

Cpl. Bob Weigelt drives from Jackman to his job in Skowhegan every day, where his excellence as a court officer has earned him the 2015 Roy Rice Award.
Published
January 7, 2016

Fairfield charter commission elects officers

The newly formed board will hold public hearings later this month and in March on the possible first substantial changes to the town’s government in three decades.
Published
January 6, 2016

Somerset commissioners pick Graf as chairman

The commissioners also made a number of appointments and hiring decisions Wednesday at their first meeting of 2016.
Published
January 6, 2016

Insurance liability may trip up new home for Skowhegan’s ‘big shoe’

The 4-foot-tall sculpture has been in storage for several years and may go in the municipal parking lot, but insurance concerns could scuttle the plan.
Published
January 5, 2016

Skowhegan Planning Board backs adding methadone clinics to town ordinance

The ordinance, if revised, would restrict where such clinics could operate in the town.
Published
January 4, 2016

McCabe to challenge Whittemore for state Senate seat

The Skowhegan Democrat will also leave his job as director of Lake George Regional Park for the Northern Forest Canoe Trail.
Published
January 3, 2016

New Year’s Eve vandalism spree in downtown Pittsfield under investigation

Sheriff’s department and Pittsfield police say pellet gun used to damage windows at several businesses.
Published
January 2, 2016

Car hits, injures pedestrian on Waterville street

The victim eventually was taken by helicopter to a Bangor hospital for treatment of head and leg injuries.
Published
January 2, 2016

Skiers, operators revel in arrival of freezing weather at Farmington’s Titcomb Mountain

The annual opening of the nonprofit skiing site on Wednesday was made possible by months of work by about 300 volunteers, according to the director.