The 12-year paving package is part of a $980,000 borrowing plan approved at last year’s Town Meeting.
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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Solon Town Meeting residents to mull fracking ban
The proposal to ban using hydraulic drilling to fracture rock for oil was proposed by Town Meeting voters last year, when voters enacted a moratorium until a ban could be drawn up.
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SAD 54 may hike taxes on district towns if state aid is down
Superintendent of Schools Brent Colbry is hopeful for additional state aid to education to balance the budget, but says the district would need $400,000 more from taxpayers if early state aid projections don’t change.
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Skowhegan Electric Motors celebrates 70 years in the same location
Founded in 1946 by Harold Adams, grandsons Scott and Mike Adams continue servicing and selling electric motors near the historic Swing Bridge.
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Cornville apartment house gutted by early morning fire
A candle was knocked over, igniting bedding in a fast-moving fire that left three families homeless in a West Ridge Road farmhouse that once housed a general store.
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Thrift store closings in Skowhegan, Pittsfield spell end for supervised workplaces
Skills Inc. participants say losing their jobs ‘really hurts a lot’ and that they face a future without a paycheck and a place in the community.
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Skowhegan sends dog safety vests off with VIP-studded ceremony
Dog Not Gone Visibility Products were loaded into trucks bound for Wal-Mart stores across the county as part of the chain’s program to support locally made products and the small company’s effort to grow.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Jason Cote’s lawyer files appeal of murder conviction, 45-year sentence
Attorney Stephen Smith says the state’s case did not support a murder conviction and that Cote, of Palmyra, acted in self-defense when he killed Ricky Cole, of Detroit, in 2013.
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Norridgewock fire victims’ bad luck continues
After the Bowring family lost everything in a January fire, food, gift cards and more donated by stores for fundraisers have been taken and online commenters have attacked the family.
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When a way of life ended with the last log drive, a new Kennebec River emerged
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the end of a 200-year tradition, but thanks to Sen. Ed Muskie and others, the result is a cleaner river and better, safer roads.