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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PublishedMarch 7, 2012
Annual high school drama festival kicks off in Skowhegan
SKOWHEGAN — More than 2,000 students from 70 high schools are expected to participate Friday and Saturday in the 81st annual Maine Drama Festival at eight regional competitions across the state.
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PublishedMarch 7, 2012
Sappi pleased by passed trade bill
SKOWHEGAN — Officials at Sappi Fine Paper on Tuesday applauded passage of a bill reversing a recent court decision that prevented the federal government from cracking down on the illegal trade actions of countries, including China.
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PublishedMarch 6, 2012
Palmyra voters to consider community center funding, school sale
PALMYRA — Residents at the annual Town Meeting on Saturday will be asked if they want to discontinue all funding for the Palmyra Community Center and to authorize selectmen to close and sell the former school.
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PublishedMarch 4, 2012
St. Albans’ new budget leaves tax rate unchanged
ST. ALBANS — Road Commissioner Ronnie Finson didn’t have time to celebrate his twin victories at the annual Town Meeting on Saturday — he was out plowing snow and sanding roads, just as he has done for the last 27 years.
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PublishedMarch 2, 2012
Sipe court arraignment today
SKOWHEGAN — Alan W. Sipe, 20, of Cornville will be arraigned today in Skowhegan District Court. Sipe is accused of firing a .22-caliber rifle into the windshield of a car while a woman was sitting in the driver’s seat on Wednesday in Skowhegan. Sipe is charged with aggravated reckless conduct with a firearm, a class B felony, and with criminal mischief. No one was injured in the shooting. He is being held on $25,000 cash bail at the county jail in East Madison.
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PublishedMarch 2, 2012
Skowhegan stabbing suspect faces more charges
SKOWHEGAN — A man charged with stabbing another man multiple times Wednesday morning now faces additional charges of burglary, aggravated criminal mischief and theft in an unrelated case a couple of hours earlier.
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PublishedMarch 1, 2012
Police say car occupants shot at
SKOWHEGAN — A 20-year-old Cornville man was arrested Wednesday morning after allegedly firing a single shot from a .22-caliber rifle through a car’s windshield while the driver was still inside.
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PublishedMarch 1, 2012
Stabbing sends man to Bangor hospital
SKOWHEGAN — A Skowhegan man was flown to a Bangor hospital with multiple stab wounds Wednesday morning and another man was in custody after a fight at an apartment complex.
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PublishedMarch 1, 2012
Man proves to be hero a second time
SKOWHEGAN — A resident of Indian Ridge Apartments who comforted a stabbing victim Wednesday morning until police and emergency workers arrived is slated to be honored later this month for saving another man last summer in Norridgewock.
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PublishedMarch 1, 2012
Man hurt in stabbing at apartment complex
SKOWHEGAN — A Skowhegan man was flown to a Bangor hospital with multiple stab wounds Wednesday morning and another man was in custody after a fight at an apartment complex.
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