The commissioners also made a number of appointments and hiring decisions Wednesday at their first meeting of 2016.
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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Insurance liability may trip up new home for Skowhegan’s ‘big shoe’
The 4-foot-tall sculpture has been in storage for several years and may go in the municipal parking lot, but insurance concerns could scuttle the plan.
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Skowhegan Planning Board backs adding methadone clinics to town ordinance
The ordinance, if revised, would restrict where such clinics could operate in the town.
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McCabe to challenge Whittemore for state Senate seat
The Skowhegan Democrat will also leave his job as director of Lake George Regional Park for the Northern Forest Canoe Trail.
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New Year’s Eve vandalism spree in downtown Pittsfield under investigation
Sheriff’s department and Pittsfield police say pellet gun used to damage windows at several businesses.
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Car hits, injures pedestrian on Waterville street
The victim eventually was taken by helicopter to a Bangor hospital for treatment of head and leg injuries.
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Skiers, operators revel in arrival of freezing weather at Farmington’s Titcomb Mountain
The annual opening of the nonprofit skiing site on Wednesday was made possible by months of work by about 300 volunteers, according to the director.
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Wilton woman, 21, identified in deadly Farmington crash
Taylor Gaboury was killed in the crash and Tommy Clark, 25, of Industry, was arrested on a felony charge of aggravated operating under the influence of alcohol in connection with the incident, police said.
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Pedestrian in fatal Farmington hit-and-run tentatively identified as Wilton woman
An Industry man is charged with aggravated operating under the influence of alcohol.
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Domestic violence, other issues kept Somerset County law enforcement busy in 2015
New faces in the sheriff’s department and Skowhegan police department say they hope to focus on building relationships in the community in the coming year.