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
June 29, 2018

Clinton woman charged with embezzlement from Norridgewock store

Joyce Carpenter allegedly took more than $10,000 from the Tradewinds store while employed there as a clerk.
Published
June 28, 2018

Pyro City Maine launches fireworks store in Skowhegan just weeks after vote

A Town Meeting vote allows the sale of pyrotechnics in town just in time for the Fourth of July with a full stock of consumer fireworks and instruction on their safe use.
Published
June 28, 2018

Skowhegan man charged with robbery in holdup of Skowhegan Savings Bank

DNA evidence led the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office to Dustin L. Everett, who confessed his involvement in the robbery of the Norridgewock branch.
Published
June 26, 2018

Skowhegan presents flag to Somerset County sheriff in memory Cpl. Eugene Cole

The Thin Blue Line flag was one of many that flew above Skowhegn streets on May 7, the day of Cpl. Eugene Cole’s funeral in Bangor.
Published
June 26, 2018

Pittsfield man indicted on charges of trafficking fentanyl, cocaine, heroin

Todd M. Anderson, 21, heads a list of indictments handed up by the Somerset County grand jury.
Published
June 25, 2018

Farmington man indicted on 16 counts of rape of a child

Joseph L. Magee of Farmington is being held at the Franklin County jail on $100,000 cash bail.
Published
June 25, 2018

Cpl. Eugene Cole was on the ground when he was fatally shot, document says

John D. Williams, who is charged with killing the Somerset County officer in April, allegedly told investigators that ‘he was mad at Cpl. Cole for arresting his girlfriend.’
Published
June 23, 2018

Effort to move memorial to state trooper killed in Palmyra underway

Trooper Thomas Merry was killed in 1980 while setting up a roadblock to stop a car involved in a high-speed chase.
Published
June 21, 2018

Legislature passes bill calling for naming Norridgewock bridge for Cpl. Eugene Cole

The bill to name the $22 million bridge completed in 2011 for the slain Somerset County deputy sheriff heads to the governor’s desk for his consideration.
Published
June 20, 2018

Skowhegan protesters decry Trump administration’s immigration policy

The people gather on the Margaret Chase Smith Bridge said the policy change anouncement the president made Wednesday is irrelevant, because it still means innocent children will be locked up.