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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PublishedMay 2, 2017
Renovation continues for charter high school due to open in August in downtown Skowhegan
Cornville Regional Charter School is expanding to include grade 9 in the new high school and a pre-kindergarten on South Factory Street
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PublishedMay 2, 2017
St. Albans man escapes serious injury after truck rips wires off Newport home
Kenneth Mower, 23, apparently fell asleep at the wheel of his 2014 gray Nissan truck Tuesday morning when he hit a tractor-trailer, a snowmobile and a utility pole.
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PublishedMay 1, 2017
Skowhegan man claiming he was racially taunted indicted for assault
Charles Adam Fairley allegedly used a doctor’s scalpel to slash another man.
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PublishedApril 30, 2017
Home-schooled kids from Somerset, Kennebec counties headed to Destination Imagination finals
Middle-school students in Somerset Homeschool Co-op comprise team Infinite Velocity that will compete in Knoxville, Tennessee, May 24-27.
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PublishedApril 29, 2017
Three-alarm Waterville fire at community support agency draws crews from several communities
One man who lived in attached apartment building was left homeless.
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PublishedApril 28, 2017
Madison schools trying to hold line on spending despite loss of paper mill taxes
Salaries for new principals at high school and junior high school were on the table Tuesday at an informational meeting.
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PublishedApril 28, 2017
Somerset County adds security guard, dispatcher as part of proposed 2016-17 budget
Proposed $12.5 million spending package set for public hearing and commissioners’ vote May 16.
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PublishedApril 27, 2017
State police, Skowhegan police investigate camp break-ins, vandalism at Lake George
Some of the burglaries occurred in Canaan, allowing for the joint investigation of crimes apparently committed during the winter
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PublishedApril 27, 2017
One-way street signs in Skowhegan removed as changes made to changes made earlier this month
Gem Street and Cowette Street are expected to get new “local traffic only” signs as traffic policy emerges in preparation for a May 23 public hearing.
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PublishedApril 25, 2017
Skowhegan public hearing on banning pot sales turns into blustery debate on town streets
Selectmen agreed to present the pot ban at Town Meeting in June and to hold a public hearing on one-way streets May 23.
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