Former Fairfield Police Chief John Emery was ordered to pay a $500 fine, $140 in court fees and to surrender his driver’s license for 90 days in court today after pleading guilty to operating under the influence.
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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Man killed when dump truck hits him in Starks
An Anson man picking up bottles by the road was killed Tuesday when he was struck by a town-owned dump truck on Route 43.
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Skowhegan man faces second weapons charge after weekend incident
Police say Sipe didn’t know the two men he allegedly threatened early Sunday at a bonfire on Dartmouth Street.
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Fairfield man arrested in police chase in Madison, Skowhegan
A Fairfield man in a stolen vehicle was arrested Monday after a police chase through East Madison that ended on a dirt road in Skowhegan.
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Prisoner denies responsibility in death of fellow inmate
Guy E. Hunnewell, accused of killing fellow inmate Alan D. Powell in an exercise area at the Maine State Prison in June, says he was not criminally responsible at the time of Powell’s death.
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New pop-up store opens in Skowhegan
Temporary business takes a trial run at the Somerset Grist Mill.
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Changes to Skowhegan’s Indian sculpture site draw concern from selectmen
Plans to renovate the site of the iconic Skowhegan Indian sculpture, and to change the sculpture’s orientation, drew criticism from selectmen Tuesday, which was welcomed by the executive director of Main Street Skowhegan.
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Palmyra man indicted on multiple bad check charges
Rex A. Call Jr., 28, of Palmyra, faces eight counts of writing bad checks for hundreds of dollars in cash and services in six separate indictments handed down by a Somerset County grand jury.
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Fourth person arrested in 2012 Skowhegan strong-arm robbery
Brandon M. Blodgett, 24, was arrested Friday in connection with an attack on a man at an apartment in Skowhegan in March 2012.
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Somerset’s omission from state jail panel slammed
Somerset County commissioners think exclusion from the legislative group is retaliation for their lawsuit against the state. Others say legislative leadership never sought to exclude Somerset County from the panel.