Dale Poulin, 31, was accidentally shot in the face Wednesday night while he showed his hunting rifle to friends
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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Somerset grand jury indicts South African in Skowhegan burglary case
Suspect’s complaint claims jail won’t let him conduct his religious rites
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New Hampshire boy faces charges after bomb scare at Skowhegan store
Walmart evacuated about an hour before closing Saturday night after police said prank call from Belmont, N.H., came in
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Maine Guide’s hunting camp heavily damaged in Athens fire
Fire started near a wood stove chimney Sunday evening in the camp off Stickney Hill Road
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Spilled baked goods on Interstate 95 cause crash
A load of pastries, cupcakes and other baked goods that spilled from a truck into the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 Monday morning in Palmyra led to a rear-end collision that sent the driver of a Ford Explorer to the hospital
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Athens school beginning year of transition since leaving Madison-based district
Athens now owns its own school, land, buses and teacher contracts after leaving Madison-based School Administrative District 59 this summer
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Oakland man faces charges after police say he wrecked car
Authorities say Christian Ferguson, 20, fled without reporting the accident early Friday in New Sharon
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Other’s trash builds Ripley artist’s dream city
Wally Warren builds intricate miniature cities, ships from the same cast off materials that are now on display at Skowhegan gallery.
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Skowhegan’s Whitten Brook cleanup underway
Removing pollution means threatened trout population may soon be swimming through downtown.
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Oakland man who died left truck in neutral, parking brake off
Michael Morin had left his fully loaded logging truck in a neutral gear with the parking brake off before he went to a Skowhegan restaurant Monday.