Skowhegan selectmen will recommend a $8.8 million budget to take to the voters at the June Town Meeting.
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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New auto parts store to make ‘competition stronger’ in Skowhegan
An Advance Auto Parts store being built in Skowhegan will boost competition in the market and help make the businesses more customer-friendly.
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Skowhegan student makes sparks in and out of school
Part-time welder, full-time student Sarah Finnemore is the valedictorian of the Skowhegan Area High School’s class of 2013.
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Big honor for low-key ex-Marine in Norridgewock
A Norridgewock ex-Marine was named Marine of the Year by the Maine Marine Corps League.
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Two injured in Cornville crash Thursday
Two men were injured after their vehicles collided on Route 43 in Cornville Thursday.
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Skowhegan woman heads to NH to face murder conspiracy charges
Michele Corson, of Skowhegan, charged with conspiring to murder her brother’s ex-wife, agreed Wednesday to be extradited to New Hampshire.
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Sappi’s Skowhegan plant agrees to natural gas deal with Summit
Sappi Fine Paper’s Somerset mill in Skowhegan joined Huhtamaki Inc. in Fairfield and Waterville with agreements in principle in recent days to receive natural gas from Summit Natural Gas of Maine.
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Rustic Overtones performance headlines annual Taste of Greater Waterville
A free performance by popular Maine band Rustic Overtones headlines the Taste of Greater Waterville on Aug. 7
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Washington’s partisan entrenchments getting deeper, says former US Rep. Frank
Former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank told a Colby College audience Sunday that partisanship in American government is not the problem; extreme partisanship is the problem.
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Waterville ‘make-your-own-coffin’ class dead on arrival
Natural-burial and home-funeral advocate Chuck Lakin, a woodworker from Waterville who had organized the 9 a.m. workshop, said he was disappointed that his planned event did not materialize, but he added that he understands.