SKOWHEGAN — Voters have approved School Administrative District 54’s proposed $32.33 million budget for the coming school year.
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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Fallen Newport soldier loved rural Maine life
NEWPORT — An aunt and uncle who helped raise Jay Brainard said Wednesday the soldier loved the Maine outdoors, loved his family and was honored to serve in the military.
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Lost pilot ‘shined’ as student, athlete, soldier
Capt. John “Jay” Brainard, who died in Afghanistan on Monday, was an honor student and sportsman who was drawn to serve in the military.
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Local man killed
NEWPORT — A U.S. Army captain and 2004 graduate of Foxcroft Academy was killed Monday when his helicopter crashed while on patrol with the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade in Afghanistan.
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Newport soldier killed in Afghan crash
NEWPORT — A U.S. Army captain and 2004 graduate of Foxcroft Academy was killed Monday when his helicopter crashed while on patrol with the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade in Afghanistan.
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Service, sacrifice, suffering, silence
SKOWHEGAN — David Richards, interim director of the Margaret Chase Smith Library in Skowhegan, told a Memorial Day assembly Monday to remember war veterans with the four S’es: Service, sacrifice, suffering and silence.
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Local Vietnam veterans reticent about reception
SKOWHEGAN — A Memorial Day gathering Monday at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., marked the beginning of a national commemoration of the anniversary of the Vietnam War.
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She wants memorials at bridges
HARMONY — The woman who succeeded in having two bridges renamed to honor domestic violence victims now wants to add memorial gardens at the bridges and to plant perennial flowers by the roadside — all the way to Dexter.
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Less-than-honorable treatment of Vietnam vets still upsets many
SKOWHEGAN — A Memorial Day gathering Monday at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., marked the beginning of a national commemoration of the anniversary of the Vietnam War.