ATHENS — A town committee examining the community’s relationship with the local school district is recommending withdrawal from the district.
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 general store the big attraction in small-town Starks
STARKS — There is no post office in Starks, population 640.
There is no school, no stop light and until last week, no store.
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New general store the big attraction in small-town Starks
STARKS — There is no post office in Starks, population 640.
There is no school, no stop light and until last week, no store.
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Clowning isn’t an act; it’s an ‘extension’
SKOWHEGAN — Antonia Smith of Oakland is an extrovert. At age 47, the former stay-at-home mom turned clown would have to be an extrovert to do what she does: perform as Wingnut the Clown
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Franklin, Somerset county jails reach agreement with state on cost of inmate sharing
EAST MADISON — Inmates began arriving at the Somerset County Jail from Franklin County this week marking the end of a nearly four-month-long battle between state corrections officials and local authorities over the cost to house inmates from other counties.
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Winslow teen charged for second time since weekend for stealing truck
Police arrested a Winslow teenager Monday night after he allegedly stole a pickup truck from Cumberland Farms in Skowhegan and led officers on a high-speed chase through Winslow and Benton and into Unity Township.
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Skowhegan woman charged with assaulting police officer
Brittany L. Bickford, 35, was arrested on charges of assaulting a police officer, refusing to submit to arrest and failure to give information to police. She was released later on $360 cash bail from the Somerset County Jail in East Madison.
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Winslow teenager arrested after high-speed chase
Police arrested a Winslow teenager Monday night after he allegedly stole a pickup truck from Cumberland Farms in Skowhegan and led officers on a high-speed chase through Winslow and Benton and into Unity Township.
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One held, one bailed on Skowhegan pot cultivation charges
SKOWHEGAN — A Lebanon man remains behind bars this week after he and a Monmouth man were found camping in woods next to a large marijuana growing operation on U.S. Route 2, police said.
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Registration for newly approved Cornville Regional Charter School K-6 classes scheduled Thursday
CORNVILLE — Kaleb Miller turns 5 on Sept. 13.
The Cornville youngster comes in just under the Oct. 1 deadline to be eligible to enter kindergarten at the new Cornville Regional Charter School, which will be among the first charter schools opened in Maine