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 1, 2012
Roommates singled out for Red Cross heroes award
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
Arrest made after shot into car
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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PublishedFebruary 29, 2012
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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PublishedFebruary 28, 2012
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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PublishedFebruary 26, 2012
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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PublishedFebruary 26, 2012
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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PublishedFebruary 26, 2012
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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PublishedFebruary 26, 2012
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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PublishedFebruary 22, 2012
Skowhegan man charged with promoting prostitution
SKOWHEGAN — Boothbay Harbor Police charged a Skowhegan man Tuesday with promoting prostitution.
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PublishedFebruary 22, 2012
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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