SKOWHEGAN — More than $4 million in public and private investment has come to downtown Skowhegan, bringing 21 new businesses and 43 new jobs since the program Main Street Skowhegan came to town in 2005.
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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Mass. man gets 50 years for killing Farmington woman
FARMINGTON — Juan Contreras, the man on trial this week for the murder of 81-year-old Grace Burton changed his plea to guilty on Thursday.
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Witness tells Farmington murder trial jury he did not lace suspect’s marijuana with other drugs
FARMINGTON — The man who Juan Contreras told investigators slipped him other drugs in a marijuana cigarette the night Grace Burton was murdered testified Wednesday that he did not lace the joint with anything.
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Remorse, but no explanation in Farmington murder trial
The man on trial for killing 81-year-old Grace Burton in her apartment told police he was sorry about what happened but offered no motive.
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Farmington murder suspect was impaired by drugs, his lawyers claim
FARMINGTON — The attorneys for a man accused of killing a woman in her apartment last year said during the first day of the murder trial Monday that their client was intoxicated — possibly involuntarily — and did not know what he was doing.
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Attorney: Attacker unaware of his actions during killing
The attorney for a man accused of killing an elderly woman in her Farmington apartment said today that his client was intoxicated and did not know what he was doing during the attack.
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Skowhegan Woman’s Club celebrates 130 years
SKOWHEGAN — The group that brought the first sidewalks to Skowhegan, worked toward the advancement of women and pressed for sanitation, clean air and water as early as 1900 is celebrating a birthday this weekend.
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Somerset County Commissioners candidates want jail revenues to pay off debt
Two candidates running for the District 2 seat on the board of Somerset County Commissioners say they want to see legislation allowing the county to use revenues from the jail to offset the debt it took to build it.
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Starks shooting details remain unclear as victim recovers from surgery
STARKS — Kerry Hebert is recovering from surgery at a Lewiston hospital Thursday after being shot at close range in a dispute with hunters on his land the day before.
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Police: Starks shooting investigation could take weeks
Forensic evidence going to crime lab in Augusta. Family says Kerry Hebert, 56, was shot once near his home when he confronted two men and asked them not to hunt on his property. He’s in stable condition this morning, police say.