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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PublishedAugust 26, 2012
Union and Confederacy battle once again in Fairfield
The battle was part of a three-day event called “We Are Coming, Father Abraham,” a call to arms by President Abraham Lincoln for another 300,000 volunteers to fight the Confederacy in July 1862, according to the event’s website.
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PublishedAugust 23, 2012
Phone scammers claim to be sheriff, ask for personal information
Somerset County Sheriff Barry DeLong is not making personal calls to your home asking for donations, nor are any of his deputies.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2012
Somerset County Sheriff warns of scamsters who masquerade as police officers
EAST MADISON — Somerset County Barry DeLong is not making personal calls to your home asking for donations, nor are any of his deputies.
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PublishedAugust 21, 2012
Waterville police suspect report of man with gun was intended to be diversion from robbery
Police are skeptical but not ruling out the possibility that a call to them 14 minutes before the robbery of a Rite Aid pharmacy Tuesday morning was a diversion.
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PublishedAugust 21, 2012
Quick thinking leads to arrests in Waterville pharmacy robbery
Waterville Police Chief Joseph Massey said clerks at the Rite Aid pharmacy at 210 Main St. were on the phone with police even before an 8 a.m. robbery because the men looked suspicious.
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PublishedAugust 21, 2012
Family says Palmyra teen girl may have gone to meet older man she met online
“We know she’s been talking to a couple of guys online and one of them is from Louisiana and another one from New York City,” said Harley McGinnis’ grandmother, Sue Quimby.
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PublishedAugust 20, 2012
Two injured in car crash at Madison golf course
MADISON — Two people were hospitalized Monday morning after a car and a van collided on U.S. Route 201, pushing both vehicles into golf carts parked at Lakewood Golf Course.
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PublishedAugust 20, 2012
New Cornville charter school principal says focus will be on each student
CORNVILLE — The incoming principal at the Cornville Regional Charter School sums up his philosophy of education in five words: Each child is the class.
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PublishedAugust 20, 2012
‘We’ve got more kids than we have slots,’ says Cornville charter school director
CORNVILLE — The board of the Cornville Regional Charter School will conduct a bingo-style lottery to select the students will be eligible to attend classes when the school opens Oct. 1.
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PublishedAugust 18, 2012
Anson, Madison and Starks consider joining fire departments
MADISON — Anson, Madison and Starks officials are considering combining the communities’ three all-volunteer fire departments to control costs and ease staffing problems.
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