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
January 4, 2017

Federal court denies appeal of man in 2011 armed robbery for drugs in Bingham

James Stile was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the sawed-off shotgun robbery of E.W. Moore and Sons Pharmacy during string of pharmacy robberies.
Published
January 4, 2017

Former Somerset County DA clerk begins prison term for embezzlement

Reporting date for Julie Smith, who pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $90,000 in May, was delayed five months due to health problems.
Published
January 3, 2017

New owner has high hopes for redeveloping closed Madison Paper mill

Owners New Mill Capital of New York want to find an industrial partner like they did with the closed Hostess Bakery last year in Biddeford to put a part of the shuttered mill property back into use.
Published
December 30, 2016

Starks man arrested in Alfred on drug charges

Marshall Smith, 27, allegedly had 124 grams of the highly potent material called “shatter” during a police traffic stop.
Published
December 30, 2016

Closed Madison mill sold to ‘joint venture’ of companies

The mill, which closed in May, putting more than 200 people out of work, has been sold to a “joint venture” of firms that hope to put the property back into use as an industrial site.
Published
December 29, 2016

Anson man charged with break-in, theft at Anson Town Office

Peter Mcanistan, 38, faces felony charges alleging he broke into the office Dec. 19 and stole $3,100 in cash, which was caught on a newly installed video surveillance system.
Published
December 29, 2016

Madison laundromat broken into on Christmas Eve; change machine ripped from wall

Elm House Laundromat on Main Street remains closed as police investigate and appeal to the public for information.
Published
December 29, 2016

Augusta-Waterville area may see 5-8 inches of snow today, but rain could creep farther inland

The National Weather Service says the rain-snow line for today’s nor’easter is expected to creep farther inland than initially predicted, though a foot or more of snow is still predicted in Somerset, Franklin counties.
Published
December 28, 2016

Oakland Town Council votes to ban marijuana retail sales and social clubs

The unanimous vote, which might be the first of its kind in Maine, doesn’t affect medical marijuana or legal possession and cultivation under state law
Published
December 25, 2016

Veteran police officer Kelly Hooper leaving Maine for a corrections job in Montana

Hooper worked more than 25 years as a law enforcement officer in Fairfield, Skowhegan and with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.