Town officials have granted a tax increment financing program to assist with construction costs.
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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Maine Grains CEO Amber Lambke, of Skowhegan, to appear on Martha Stewart TV
The episode was taped in September in New York and is to be aired sometime this fall.
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Driver for social service agency veers off road in Fairfield, lands upright in pond
Carol McManus, 75, the volunteer in her own vehicle with a Kennebec Valley Community Action Program decal on the door, reportedly hydroplaned off Middle Road shortly after 9 a.m.
Posted inLocal & State
Skowhegan vigil honors memory of slain victims of domestic abuse
Event at Coburn Park in Skowhegan part of Domestic Violence Awareness month observance.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Skowhegan police: Lock your doors, windows following recent burglaries
Thirteen homes, businesses and vehicles have been broken into since last Friday, prompting the advisory.
Posted inLocal & State
Skowhegan police appoint woman as one of two new department chaplains
Jennifer Reed of Centenary United Methodist Church, and Rev. Mark Tanner of the Federated Church, will deal with daily spiritual needs of police officers.
Posted inLocal & State
Exercise, good food and loving family contribute to long life, says Skowhegan’s oldest resident
Irene Dumont is 101 years old and the newest recipient of the Boston Post Cane.
Posted inCops & Courts, Local & State, Maine Crime
Police: Norridgewock man used baseball bat to beat another man
Police said Scott Allen Bailey, 49, broke windows and hit another man in the head with a baseball bat Sunday afternoon in Skowhegan.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Pair of boys under 10 suspected in vandalism at Skowhegan recreation center
Windows in storage trailers were smashed and fake blood was spread on the inside while the screens on 14 new windows in the center were slashed.
Posted inLocal & State
County gives Madison $77,000-plus that town overpaid for police coverage
Costs for policing the town came in under budget, resulting in the refund paid by the Somerset County commissioners.