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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PublishedJanuary 23, 2013
New Sharon man gets federal prison time for stolen firearm possession
BANGOR — A New Sharon man was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to 27 months in prison for possessing 19 stolen firearms.
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PublishedJanuary 23, 2013
Skowhegan selectmen hear case to grow town’s compost pile
SKOWHEGAN — This is not your backyard compost pile.
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2013
Skowhegan theater studio gives children escape on the stage
SKOWHEGAN — Six-year-old Lyric Whitaker normally is a shy little girl.
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PublishedJanuary 19, 2013
After 47 years, Cornville school bus driver hands in his keys
CORNVILLE — Gib Poland was a school bus driver for so many years that by the time he took his final run in November, he was driving the children and grandchildren of pupils he drove to school in the 1960s and ’70s.
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PublishedJanuary 18, 2013
Madison family loses home to early morning Friday fire
The Madison fire chief says that despite subzero temperatures, the metal roof kept the fire “like an oven” inside the building.
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PublishedJanuary 17, 2013
Skowhegan seeks to limit number, size of roadside signs
SKOWHEGAN — Signs celebrating the high school’s state championship field hockey team, the county’s maple syrup and the world’s best ice cream are displayed coming into town from U.S. Route 2 and U.S. Route 201.
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PublishedJanuary 17, 2013
Slippery roads send several to central Maine hospitals
Not a lot of snow fell across the region Wednesday, but traffic accidents on the slick roads injured several people, including three involved in a school bus accident in Skowhegan.
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2013
Skowhegan stands to lose $1.7 million in revenue sharing under LePage budget plan, town manager says
SKOWHEGAN — Offering an example of the woes communities would face if the Legislature backs Gov. Paul LePage’s two-year, $6.2 billion state budget proposal, Skowhegan’s town manager said his town could lose almost $1.7 million in state funding.
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PublishedJanuary 14, 2013
Retired Skowhegan lawyer indicted on aggravated forgery charge
SKOWHEGAN — A retired Skowhegan lawyer has been indicted by a Somerset County grand jury on charges that he passed counterfeit money at a Western Union wire-transfer outlet in August.
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PublishedJanuary 13, 2013
Skowhegan developer, business owner plan to resurrect Grange hall
SKOWHEGAN — Building contractor Stephen Dionne looks to the future and sees part of the past: the circa-1894 Skowhegan Grange hall.
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