SKOWHEGAN — Two more cases of whooping cough have been confirmed among children in Skowhegan area schools and a possible new case is being investigated in another part of Somerset County, the state epidemiologist said Tuesday.
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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Fire at Skowhegan house was arson, say investigators
SKOWHEGAN — A fire Monday morning in the basement of a vacant house on Silver Street was arson, the state Fire Marshal’s Office said Tuesday.
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Investigators plan to revisit Skowhegan fire site
SKOWHEGAN — State Investigators are scheduled to return today to a house on Silver Street where a smoky fire in the basement Monday morning brought two Skowhegan police detectives and three firetrucks.
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EMS crew honored for saving driver in Skowhegan crash
SKOWHEGAN — An emergency medical services crew from Redington-Fairview General Hospital was credited Monday with saving the life of a man who crashed his car into a house during an apparent heart attack.
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Whooping cough spreads in SAD 54
SKOWHEGAN — What began as two confirmed cases of whooping cough 10 days ago at the high school and one involving a 7-year-old has spiked to as many as 13 cases districtwide, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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‘Enough is enough’
EAST MADISON — The Somerset County Jail has stopped accepting inmates from other counties because of an ongoing battle with state officials about the cost to house them.
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Brothers face charges from power saw break-in
SKOWHEGAN — Two brothers are under arrest in connection with a burglary last summer when thieves used a power saw to cut through three doors and a padlocked gate at a Water Street business.
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Children seal time capsule in Skowhegan library basement
SKOWHEGAN — More than a dozen children were read a story called “The Busy Building” at the Skowhegan Free Public Library on Tuesday before descending the old winding stairs to the basement, where a time capsule was being assembled.
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Wrong pay, no stay
EAST MADISON — The Somerset County Jail has stopped accepting inmates from other counties because of an ongoing battle with state officials about the cost to house them.
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Police shooting of Army vet justified, says attorney general
FARMINGTON — State Attorney General William J. Schneider has concluded that the shooting death of Army veteran Justin Crowley-Smilek by a Farmington police officer in November was justified.