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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October 23, 2017

Driver who fled Skowhegan crash scene Sunday night turns himself in

Thomas Aubin, 28, of Canaan, was injured in the crash on Red Bridge Road that knocked out a utility pole before the vehicle burst into flames.
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October 22, 2017

Assistant Attorney General shows not just another pretty picture

Fresh from the nine-day murder trial of Robert Burton Skowhegan gallery displays some of John Alsop’s oil paintings at Not Just Another Pretty Picture exhibit.
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October 21, 2017

Colby volunteers, others haul discarded items away from Waterville’s South End

The rubbish collection, financed by Colby College, was intended to help the neighborhod and get students more involved with the community in which they go to school.
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October 21, 2017

Juvenile arrested after report of stabbing in Clinton

Police said they made the arrest after a search was conducted using a state police dog.
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October 20, 2017

Motion to admit polygraph test as evidence in Miranda Hopkins’ infant manslaughter trial denied

The Troy woman goes on trial Oct. 30 for manslaughter in the death of her infant son Jaxson, who was 7 weeks old at the time.
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October 19, 2017

Moscow Board of Selectmen advocates for solar power project

Town officials wrote a letter in support of a bid by solar developers at a former radar station to provide clean energy to southern New England.
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October 19, 2017

Skowhegan Area Chamber picks Davida Barter as winner of service award

Alton Whittemore, for whom the award is named, was a relative of Barter, who has a long list of achievements.
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October 18, 2017

Construction has George’s Banana Stand workers, customers going bananas

Skowhegan’s sewer separation project has closed North Avenue to southbound traffic since July, hurting the market’s business and frustrating its patrons.
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October 18, 2017

Bingham, Moscow voters approve school budget by just six votes

The possibility of closing one or more schools looms as a way to “soften the blow to taxpayers.”
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October 16, 2017

Skowhegan Technical Rescue Team recounts pulling injured man from bottom of near-vertical drop

The 25-year-old Mercer man who had injured himself with an ax near the base of a steep embankment needed the skills and “brute strength” of 14 firefighters from Skowhegan and Norridgewock during the rescue operation, officials said.