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
October 15, 2012

Somerset County gets thrice-weekly bus service by Thanksgiving

SKOWHEGAN — Public transportation is coming to Somerset County.
Published
October 15, 2012

Landmark Old Mill Pub in Skowhegan being bought by locals

SKOWHEGAN — The town’s longtime road commissioner and chairman of a group proposing a whitewater rafting park in the Kennebec River Gorge through downtown is buying the landmark Old Mill Pub.
Published
October 12, 2012

District 85 hopefuls McCabe, Skillings stress bipartisanship to build economy

SKOWHEGAN — Two-term incumbent Democrat Jeff McCabe is seeking re-election to the District 26 seat in the Maine House of Representatives. He is challenged on the ballot this year by Skowhegan Planning Board Chairman Donald Skillings, a Republican.
Published
October 11, 2012

Reward offered for deer poachers in Ripley

A $3,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest of people responsible for illegally hunting and killing four deer in the Somerset County town of Ripley.
Published
October 9, 2012

‘New beginning’ realized at Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter’s grand opening

WATERVILLE — A dream come true. That was the sentiment Monday morning during the ceremonial grand opening of the new Mid Maine Homeless Shelter on Colby Circle. It took eight years of planning and four years of intense fund raising, but the day was finally here, speakers told a large gathering outside the shelter. Maine […]
Published
October 8, 2012

Pittsfield apartment fire Saturday morning caused by french fry grease

PITTSFIELD — A tenant cooking french fries just after midnight Friday into Saturday morning sparked a fire that consumed the upper floors of an apartment house in the heart of downtown Pittsfield.
Published
October 8, 2012

Three new Skowhegan stores end health food shopping drought

SKOWHEGAN — The town was without a health food store for about six weeks this summer for the first time in 20 years, but the drought is over in a big way.
Published
October 8, 2012

Pittsfield fire Saturday caused by cooking grease

PITTSFIELD — A tenant cooking french fries just after midnight Friday into Saturday morning sparked a fire that consumed the upper floors of an apartment house in the heart of downtown Pittsfield.
Published
October 7, 2012

Jay Mercier trial: How police cracked Maine’s oldest cold case

SKOWHEGAN — When physical evidence in the 32-year-old murder case against Jay Mercier seemed to bog down in court last month with tire tracks and old photographs, the state still had one trick left up its prosecutorial sleeve: DNA.
Published
October 3, 2012

State attorney general won’t prosecute Skowhegan bodybuilder killing

SKOWHEGAN — The state attorney general’s office will not bring charges in the October 2011 shooting death of a former Skowhegan bodybuilder.