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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PublishedApril 22, 2013
Rustic Overtones performance headlines annual Taste of Greater Waterville
A free performance by popular Maine band Rustic Overtones headlines the Taste of Greater Waterville on Aug. 7
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PublishedApril 21, 2013
Washington’s partisan entrenchments getting deeper, says former US Rep. Frank
Former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank told a Colby College audience Sunday that partisanship in American government is not the problem; extreme partisanship is the problem.
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PublishedApril 20, 2013
Waterville ‘make-your-own-coffin’ class dead on arrival
Natural-burial and home-funeral advocate Chuck Lakin, a woodworker from Waterville who had organized the 9 a.m. workshop, said he was disappointed that his planned event did not materialize, but he added that he understands.
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PublishedApril 18, 2013
Skowhegan woman charged in New Hampshire murder case
Michele D. Corson, 43, of Skowhegan, was arrested at her home on Water Street Wednesday night on a fugitive-from-justice charge in a New Hampshire murder case.
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PublishedApril 17, 2013
Licensing board penalizes doctor for wrong meds
A Skowhegan doctor has been fined by the state licensing board for failing to identify an incorrect medication given to a patient who later died.
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PublishedApril 16, 2013
Somerset County dispatchers lauded for saving snowmobiler’s life
Three local dispatchers — Stephen Crowe, Shane Hunt and Margaret Parady — are being honored Wednesday by Somerset County commissioners for their work saving a woman’s life.
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PublishedApril 13, 2013
Small-retailer focus keeps Somerset Grist Mill grinding along
Maine grain products are making their way from the Somerset Grist Mill in Skowhegan to farmers’ markets in New York City, whole foods stores in Massachusetts and a New England granola company based in Brownfield.
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PublishedApril 12, 2013
Skowhegan chamber honors volunteers, leaders on Tuesday
Business leaders and volunteers will be honored for their service to the community Tuesday night during the annual Skowhegan Chamber of Commerce awards banquet.
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PublishedApril 12, 2013
Somerset County courthouse pot protest planned for Patriot’s Day
Donald Christen, 59, of Madison, is organizing a rally on the steps of the Somerset County courthouse at noon Monday for a public “smoke-in” to draw attention to efforts to further legalize marijuana use.
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PublishedApril 11, 2013
Town takes precautions against erosion at North Cemetery
About 200 feet of fabric silt fencing was installed at the North Cemetery in Skowhegan Thursday morning to stop any additional erosion exposing graves and causing damage to nearby Whitten Brook.
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