Organic farming and food producing groups are suing the federal government for changing the rule-making process to one that silences the public voice.
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 selectmen reject sweeper purchase
A proposal for the town to buy the street sweeper it had been leasing was killed on a 2-2 vote
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Maine organic growers sue over new ‘organic’ meaning
The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association has joined more than a dozen other groups nationwide to fight a new agriculture rule they say could lead to “organic” losing its meaning in describing food.
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Skowhegan woman is area drug ring leader, police say
Kirsten Libby, along with a Massachusetts man, was arrested Tuesday after an MDEA and Skowhegan police investigation lasting several months.
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Skowhegan, Madison work out street sweeper deal
The firm that rents street sweepers to local communities is getting out of that business, so Skowhegan may buy its sweeping machine and pay some of the cost by leasing it to Madison.
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Letters show escalating battle between Somerset County registrar, county officials
A suspension letter and disciplinary memo from County Administrator Dawn DiBlasi recount Diane Godin’s “retaliation and bullying,” but Godin says it’s a “personality conflict.”
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Former Skowhegan fire chief gets time to ponder NH plea
Richard Fowler is charged with allegedly stealing money from the Farmington, NH, fire department, where he was chief before a brief stint in Skowhegan last year.
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Somerset County reserve deputies get pay increase
County commissioners say the raise, from $12 to $13 per hour, is ‘a steal,’ considering the work the deputies do.
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Skowhegan’s Washburn honored for volunteer effort
Rob Washburn has been a volunteer coach for Skowhegan youth athletics, and a former player says his lessons were for life.
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Education nonprofit awards college scholarships to area pupils
Maine College Circle issued 65 scholarships, asserting that trying to motivate students to seek college should start much earlier than their high school years.