The former US senator said that America was founded on and has flourished with immigration.
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.
Skowhegan board accepts resignation of the police chief, then votes to rehire him
Police Chief Donald Bolduc will be taking benefits from the Maine state retirement system and keeping his job at a 5 percent reduction in pay.
Paco the parrot is on the loose in the woods of East Madison
The Timneh African Grey Parrot was last seen by its owner at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture when it flew off his shoulder and into the tree tops Thursday.
Cameras in downtown Skowhegan installed to improve traffic light system
Cameras will not be equipped to catch motor vehicle violators, as they have been in other states, town officials say.
Skowhegan High grad chronicles Boston’s unsolved minority murders
Aren LeBrun, a Northeastern University journalism student, has won New England Emmys in student categories for his films, which aim to stir empathy for survivors in Boston’s inner-city neighborhoods.
Norridgewock man indicted by federal grand jury on weapons charges
Vance Cayford, already in the Somerset County Jail on domestic violence and animal cruelty charges, faces six charges in U.S. District Court for allegedly possessing ammunition and attempting to possess a gun.
Skowhegan man pleads no contest to setting fire to apartment building
Peter Gary is scheduled to be sentenced in September to two years in prison in a plea agreement on an arson charge related to a fire last October that sent a firefighter to the hospital.
Former Riverview patient’s Somerset County hearing postponed again
James Mayo, of Cornville, was to appear in court Wednesday on a bail revocation hearing, but it was postponed for a second time and he remains in jail as state officials try to find him a place to live.
Skowhegan man charged in Aug. 8 sexual assault on woman
John Jolly, 50, is charged with two felony counts in Skowhegan’s third sexual abuse arrest in as many weeks.
Skowhegan teen pleads guilty to burglary and theft day after arrest
William McCarty Jr., 19, was sentenced Monday to 10 days in jail after he was arrested for burglarizing parked cars and stealing money Sunday.