Jeff Hewett, the town’s economic and community development director, owns the farm where sludge is stored and is paid $10,694 for the service.
Doug Harlow
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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Michael Lambke was the top vote-getter in Skowhegan school board elections Tuesday
Incumbent selectmen Betty Austin and Paul York returned to office for three-year terms while incumbent school board directors Jennifer Poirier and Karen Smith will return for three-year terms.
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Residents of Skowhegan-based school district OK $36.7 million school budget
The budget won majority approval in all of the district’s six towns except Canaan.
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Food, farm tours Saturday in Skowhegan to highlight Agriculture
Local foods will be featured during the AgriCulture tour and festival that will include making pasta, pairing hand-crafted cheeses, touring the grist mill and more.
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Skowhegan voters approve $12 million budget
Spending plan, along with three amended town ordinances, a property purchase, an affordable-housing tax-increment financing plan and a land lease agreement pass.
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Class of 2019 graduates from Skowhegan Area High School
Farewell speech by graduate R. Taylor Kruse puts a twist on The Seven Deadly Sins.
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Made in Maine: Somerset Grist Mill in Skowhegan is another ‘Great Good Place’
Producing tons of finished grains for shipment all across New England, the Grist Mill also has a radio station, a yarn shop and a full sit-down restaurant with wood-fired pizza and beer from the grains milled on site.
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Voters in Skowhegan-based SAD 54 go to the polls Tuesday on school budget
$36.7 million spending package up 3% overall while the local share in Canaan, Cornville, Mercer, Norridgewock and Smithfield increases and in Skowhegan decreases.
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Skowhegan school board elections Tuesday; ‘Indians’ question gone but not forgotten
Five candidates are vying for three open seats representing Skowhegan on the School Administrative District 54 board of directors, for which costs and bullying are emerging as top issues.
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Voters at Skowhegan Town Meeting to act on $12 million budget
The Town Meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday in the Skowhegan Opera House, while local elections will be held on Tuesday.