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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PublishedDecember 7, 2011
Skowhegan ‘bombed’ by knitters
SKOWHEGAN — Helsinki. London. Vancouver. Los Angeles. Skowhegan. All have been targets of a global trend in subversive embroidery called yarn bombing — random acts of knitting that brighten urban landscapes with colorful, knitted items attached to door handles, trees, trash receptacles and utility poles.
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PublishedDecember 6, 2011
Ski area owner improves
SKOWHEGAN — The wife of Eaton Mountain Ski Area owner David Beers left an answering message on her cellphone Monday, a day after her husband was injured seriously in a mechanical accident on the mountain.
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PublishedDecember 5, 2011
Lake George Regional Park marks 20 years
SKOWHEGAN — Lake George Regional Park Director Jeff McCabe is looking to 2012 — the 20th anniversary of the park — as a time for a new truck, a new lawn mower and a new map and brochure outlining the park’s 10 miles of scenic trails.
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PublishedDecember 3, 2011
Man indicted in Bank of America robbery
WATERVILLE — A city man has been indicted by a Kennebec County grand jury on robbery and terrorizing charges for his alleged role in the Nov. 7 hold up of the Bank of America on Main Street.
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PublishedDecember 3, 2011
Waterville man indicted of bank robbery
WATERVILLE — A city man has been indicted by a Kennebec County grand jury on robbery and terrorizing charges for his alleged role in the Nov. 7 hold up of the Bank of America on Main Street.
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PublishedDecember 2, 2011
Mental health clinic won’t move offices
SKOWHEGAN — Kennebec Behavioral Health has withdrawn a proposal to move its offices and daytime outpatient care to a residential neighborhood on Water Street.
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PublishedDecember 1, 2011
Tree in place, ready to decorate, light
SKOWHEGAN — Warm temperatures on the final day of November were no match for the spirit of the Christmas season Wednesday as crews raised a 28-foot balsam fir tree downtown.
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PublishedDecember 1, 2011
Motive still unclear in Dover-Foxcroft shooting
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Police said they are still working out why Michael Curtis shot and killed his wife’s former husband Tuesday morning before he was fatally shot by a state trooper.
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PublishedDecember 1, 2011
Investigators continue to work out details of double-shooting incident
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Police said they are still working out why Michael Curtis shot and killed his wife’s former husband Tuesday morning before he was fatally shot by a state trooper.
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PublishedNovember 30, 2011
Two men shot dead
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Two men were shot to death Tuesday morning — one of them by a state trooper — in a series of events that began at a nursing home and ended at the Piscataquis Valley Fairgrounds.
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