SKOWHEGAN — New York City, here they come.
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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Skowhegan prepares for school budget vote
SKOWHEGAN — Voting on the proposed $32.33 million budget for 2012-13 is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday at Skowhegan Area High School.
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Domestic violence fight is flowering
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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Chance to meet ‘horse people’
WILTON — Cowboys way out West probably didn’t know what veterinarian Stephanie Heikkinen knows about horses.
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Event promotes animal health, features what horse people do
WILTON — Cowboys out West probably didn’t know what veterinarian Stephanie Heikkinen knows about horses.
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Memorial Day parade in Skowhegan to be free of politics
SKOWHEGAN — The annual Memorial Day parade is set for 10 a.m. Monday, but don’t expect to see political campaigning or anti-war demonstrators in it.
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Judge to allow claims of abuse in Licata murder trial
SKOWHEGAN — Claims by Angelo Licata that prior physical or sexual abuse by his father led him to kill the older man last summer will be allowed as evidence at his murder trial next month, a judge said Thursday.
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Senate candidate Bennett: ‘We need reforms now’
SKOWHEGAN — U.S. Senate candidate Rick Bennett told downtown business people Thursday that the nation’s mounting debt, the threat to small business, the burden of ObamaCare and the reversal of deficit spending will be his primary focus as the election campaign.
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What’s past is prologue, defense says
SKOWHEGAN — Claims by Angelo Licata that prior physical or sexual abuse by his father led him to kill the older man last summer will be allowed as evidence at his murder trial next month, a judge said Thursday.
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Man arrested in Skowhegan on drug charges
SKOWHEGAN — A Lewiston man was arrested on drug charges Wednesday afternoon as he was walking down the street, police said.