The request for a rule comes at the same time Town Manager Christine Almand husband’s is pursuing a full-time on the Fire Department.
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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Skowhegan to use ‘rainy day’ funds to offset taxes
The $750,000 that voters approved is more than twice what the Board of Selectment recommended.
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Skowhegan Area Chamber of Commerce names Jason Gayne interim executive director
The part-time police officer is also executive director of Hospital Volunteers of Somerset County, among other duties, and will fill in as Cory King leaves.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools and Education
SAD 54 residents to vote on $33.9 million budget Tuesday
The Skowhegan-based district will apply an extra $194,564 in state subsidy because of hardship caused by the Sappi paper mill valuation reduction.
Posted inMaine, News
Skowhegan voters to debate $10 million budget Monday at Town Meeting
Spending from surplus could offset some of the drop in tax revenue from the Sappi paper mill.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools and Education
SAD 49’s four towns to vote Tuesday on $25.8 million school budget
The referendum ballots in Fairfield, Benton, Albion and Clinton will ask residents whether the district budget approved in May should be validated.
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Four candidates to vie for two seats Tuesday on Skowhegan Board of Selectmen
Incumbent school board members who support keeping the Indians nickname at the high school are seeking re-election unopposed.
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Newell Graf, Anne Amadon square off in House 107 Republican primary
The seat representing Skowhegan and part of Madison is being vacated by House Majority Leader Jeff McCabe because of term limits.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Knox woman arrested Tuesday morning after two-vehicle accident in Winslow
Kristi Abbott, driving with her two young children, was charged with driving without a license and with violating alcohol restrictions.
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Police: Dog is euthanized after killing 7-year-old boy in Corinna
Hunter Bragg, 7, of Bangor, was killed by the dog Saturday as he played with two other children at the Moody’s Mills Road home, the Penobscot County sheriff said at a news conference Monday in Bangor.