MADISON — An $11 million budget for the coming year passed Tuesday by just four votes in a School Administrative District 59 validation referendum.
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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Fairfield man indicted on assault, weapon charges
SKOWHEGAN — A Fairfield man has been indicted by a Somerset County grand jury on four criminal counts, including aggravated assault and using a dangerous weapon — a hard plastic case that a power drill comes in.
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LePage appoints Madison student
MADISON — A sophomore at Madison Area Memorial High School has been appointed by Gov. Paul LePage to serve as a student representative on the Maine State Board of Education.
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Madison student on Maine board
MADISON — A sophomore at Madison Area Memorial High School has been appointed by Gov. Paul LePage to serve as a student representative on the Maine State Board of Education.
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Cianbro CEO stoked about green power
MOSCOW — Cianbro Corp. CEO Peter Vigue says he’s all about producing green power — renewable energy.
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‘We have no food policy’
FARMINGTON — Maine not only needs to produce more local food, the state also needs to establish a food system that processes, packages and ships the food.
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Groups show Earth Day enthusiasm in Waterville
WATERVILLE — The Sustain Mid Maine Coalition turned out in force Saturday with its Environmental Expo 2012 at the second annual Earth Day Move & Groove celebration of the arrival of spring.
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Insecurity about food
FARMINGTON — Maine not only needs to produce more local food, the state also needs to establish a food system that processes, packages and ships the food.
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What makes schools better?
SKOWHEGAN — A research team from the University of Southern Maine visited Skowhegan Area High School this week to see what makes one of Maine’s improving public high schools tick.
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Skowhegan selectmen accept grant for Whitten Brook project
SKOWHEGAN — Selectmen Tuesday night voted 5-0 to accept $88,649 in grant money from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection for the Whitten Brook watershed restoration project.