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
April 13, 2015

SAD 54 school subcommittee told ‘Indian mascots are wrong’

Tribal representatives presented a case Monday against Skowhegan schools keeping their Indian mascot.
Published
April 11, 2015

Skowhegan’s Indian on the line

Members of Maine’s Indian tribes will try to explain at a meeting with a school board panel Monday why they think continuing use of ‘Indians’ as a sports nickname is inappropriate.
Published
April 10, 2015

Skowhegan faces $2.2 million assessment question

The Board of Assessors will sleep on a bid by Sappi Paper to cut the valuation of the mill by another $137 million.
Published
April 9, 2015

Maine farmers say new rule process could chill consumer confidence in ‘organic’

Organic farming and food producing groups are suing the federal government for changing the rule-making process to one that silences the public voice.
Published
April 8, 2015

Skowhegan selectmen reject sweeper purchase

A proposal for the town to buy the street sweeper it had been leasing was killed on a 2-2 vote
Published
April 8, 2015

Maine organic growers sue over new ‘organic’ meaning

The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association has joined more than a dozen other groups nationwide to fight a new agriculture rule they say could lead to “organic” losing its meaning in describing food.
Published
April 8, 2015

Skowhegan woman is area drug ring leader, police say

Kirsten Libby, along with a Massachusetts man, was arrested Tuesday after an MDEA and Skowhegan police investigation lasting several months.
Published
April 7, 2015

Skowhegan, Madison work out street sweeper deal

The firm that rents street sweepers to local communities is getting out of that business, so Skowhegan may buy its sweeping machine and pay some of the cost by leasing it to Madison.
Published
April 2, 2015

Letters show escalating battle between Somerset County registrar, county officials

A suspension letter and disciplinary memo from County Administrator Dawn DiBlasi recount Diane Godin’s “retaliation and bullying,” but Godin says it’s a “personality conflict.”
Published
April 2, 2015

Former Skowhegan fire chief gets time to ponder NH plea

Richard Fowler is charged with allegedly stealing money from the Farmington, NH, fire department, where he was chief before a brief stint in Skowhegan last year.