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.
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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Bats, dam, windows on Embden budget
EMBDEN — Voters at the annual Town Meeting Saturday will be asked to take nearly $80,000 in state reimbursement money to get rid of bats in the historic Embden Town House, build a new dam on Embden Pond and to install new windows in the town’s community center.
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St. Albans to vote on smaller town budget
ST. ALBANS — Voters will be asked to raise about $6,700 less than they did last year for municipal spending at the annual Town Meeting on Saturday.
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Maine’s copper problem
SKOWHEGAN — Retired school teacher Jane Arthur said she was terrified to go back into her house this month after thieves broke in and stripped the vacant two-story building of its copper plumbing.
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Skowhegan homeless shelter residents work to pay for sewers
SKOWHEGAN — The Skowhegan Miracle Homeless Shelter this week is again sending its residents to work for the town in lieu of payments on a one-time sewer hook-up fee.
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Metal theft becoming an epidemic
SKOWHEGAN — Retired school teacher Jane Arthur said she was terrified to go back into her house this month after thieves broke in and stripped the vacant two-story building of its copper plumbing.
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Bill moves in Legislature
An emergency bill to deter copper thefts is headed for votes in the Maine House and Senate.
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Skowhegan man charged with promoting prostitution
SKOWHEGAN — Boothbay Harbor Police charged a Skowhegan man Tuesday with promoting prostitution.
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Man charged with being fugitive held
SKOWHEGAN — A Skowhegan man was ordered held without bail Tuesday on a fugitive-from-justice warrant from South Daytona Beach, Fla.
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Man charged with promoting prostitution
SKOWHEGAN — Boothbay Harbor police charged a Skowhegan man Tuesday with promoting prostitution.