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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PublishedJanuary 21, 2012
Sappi Fine gets new director from Bucksport
SKOWHEGAN — The former vice president of operations at the Verso Paper Corp. mill in Bucksport has been named the new managing director at the Sappi Fine Paper North America’s Somerset mill in Skowhegan.
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2012
New Skowhegan shelter open house is Saturday
SKOWHEGAN — Smoke curls from the chimneys of two outdoor wood furnaces that heat the new 60-bed homeless shelter on McClellan Street and Trinity Evangelical Free Church next door.
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PublishedJanuary 19, 2012
Fairfield woman indicted on charge of bringing cocaine to jail
SKOWHEGAN — A Fairfield woman has been indicted by a Somerset County grand jury on charges of trafficking in prison contraband and possession of drugs.
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PublishedJanuary 17, 2012
Business awaits Skowhegan fireworks vote
SKOWHEGAN — A Hallowell-based pyrotechnics company is awaiting the outcome of a vote at a special town meeting next month that will determine how consumer fireworks would be used in town.
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PublishedJanuary 17, 2012
Skowhegan mulls over fireworks
SKOWHEGAN — A Hallowell-based pyrotechnics company is awaiting the outcome of a vote at a special town meeting next month that will determine how consumer fireworks would be used in town.
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2012
Somerset County 911 call center untouched by cuts
SKOWHEGAN — An upcoming proposal aims to cut the number of 911 call centers in Maine, but won’t change how the one in Somerset County operates.
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2012
Somerset 911 call center to stay open
SKOWHEGAN — An upcoming proposal aims to cut the number of 911 call centers in Maine, but won’t change how the one in Somerset County operates.
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PublishedJanuary 14, 2012
Skowhegan police searching for burglars after break-in
SKOWHEGAN — Police used a tracking dog Thursday night to search back streets and woods around Whittemore & Sons on Waterville Road after burglars forced their way into a warehouse full of outdoor power equipment.
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PublishedJanuary 14, 2012
Oily dirt won’t touch pasture
CORNVILLE — The C.N. Brown Oil Co. has withdrawn its plans to spread petroleum-contaminated soil on dairy farmland on West Ridge Road.
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PublishedJanuary 13, 2012
Skowhegan police launch investigation into grabbing
SKOWHEGAN — A detective has been assigned to investigate a report from a 14-year-old girl who said she was grabbed by a stranger Monday night on North Avenue.
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