SKOWHEGAN — Selectmen have agreed to a three-year contract for Town Manager John Doucette Jr. that includes pay raises and an extra week of vacation.
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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No gas sans Sappi
SKOWHEGAN — A proposed tax increment financing district for the Kennebec Valley Gas Co. pipeline in Skowhegan will be 4 feet wide and more than 8 miles long and would hold an estimated assessed value for taxation of $4.67 million.
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Bill would have bridges honor violence victims
HARMONY — Plans to name two bridges after a mother and her two children killed in a domestic-violence incident in Dexter last year will come one step closer fulfillment this morning in Augusta.
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Bill aims to honor violence victims
HARMONY — Plans to name two bridges after a mother and her two children killed in a domestic-violence incident in Dexter last year will come one step closer fulfillment this morning in Augusta.
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Road costs accumulate
Mix in a few inches of snow and it doesn’t make for much winter fun so far this season, but it sure has kept road crews busy. And much of it has been at overtime wages.
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Boiler system moves ahead
SKOWHEGAN — The school board last week voted to go ahead with a wood-pellet boiler system for the high school and Bloomfield Elementary School, despite the possibility that a natural gas pipeline might someday serve the schools.
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Winter keeping road crews busy
Ice. Freezing rain. Rain.
Mix in a few inches of snow and it doesn’t make for much winter fun so far this season, but it sure has kept road crews busy. And much of it has been at overtime wages.
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Sappi Fine gets new director from Bucksport
SKOWHEGAN — The former vice president of operations at the Verso Paper Corp. mill in Bucksport has been named the new managing director at the Sappi Fine Paper North America’s Somerset mill in Skowhegan.
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New Skowhegan shelter open house is Saturday
SKOWHEGAN — Smoke curls from the chimneys of two outdoor wood furnaces that heat the new 60-bed homeless shelter on McClellan Street and Trinity Evangelical Free Church next door.
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Fairfield woman indicted on charge of bringing cocaine to jail
SKOWHEGAN — A Fairfield woman has been indicted by a Somerset County grand jury on charges of trafficking in prison contraband and possession of drugs.