Jason and Carrie Tessier and their two daughters provide meat, coffee, poultry, maple syrup, crafts and more to the Skowhegan Farmers’ Market and other customers.
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 carnivalgoers frolic, fish amid fresh snow at Lake George
The Box Sled Derby Race drew 37 entrants who competed on man-made snow mounds.
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Two people suffer burns in Oakland house fire Saturday morning
The accidental blaze destroyed the mobile home, leaving six pets unaccounted for.
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Busy secondhand shop part of Skowhegan’s merry-go-round business loop
Rhonda York’s Crazy Cuzin’s is one of many stores that moved recently; others include Kel-Mat Cafe, Ginny’s Natural Corner and Karen’s Kloset, which closed Friday
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Hartland men arrested in connection with Athens store burglaries
The two men, also being held on charges stemming from a January burglary in Burnham, were on a ‘mini crime spree,’ the Somerset County sheriff says.
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One dies in Wilton crash as slick roads cause crashes throughout central Maine
A pickup truck driver went off Temple Road, hit a tree and overturned, the most serious of dozens of crashes in Somerset, Franklin and northern Kennebec counties.
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Lake George Regional Park winter carnival to be director’s last event
A nine-year run at the park in Skowhegan and Canaan gives way to a new job for House Majority Leader Jeff McCabe at the nonprofit Northern Forest Canoe Trail.
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Bartlettyarns textile mill part of Harmony spinning tradition since 1821
While the antique equipment still does its job well, the owners hope to use a Department of Agriculture grant they are finalists for to upgrade to a mechanical commercial wool baler .
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Somerset County indictments handed up
Daniel W. Gordon, 26, of Skowhegan, charged with felony and domestic violence assault, is among those indicted.
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Skowhegan man’s death not considered suspicious, police say
People outside an apartment house on West Front Street Friday said their friend — later identified as 36-year-old Paul McCarthy — possibly died of a drug overdose.