SKOWHEGAN — More than 60 years after storming Utah Beach on D-Day on June 6, 1944, Skowhegan native Armand E. Poirier has been inducted into the French Legion of Honor.
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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In Skowhegan, the wheels are in motion
SKOWHEGAN — Retired fix-it man Hugh Breingan had planned to salvage, fix and give away about 80 bikes to area children last summer.
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Veteran in French Legion of Honor
SKOWHEGAN — More than 60 years after storming Utah Beach on D-Day on June 6, 1944, Skowhegan native Armand E. Poirier has been inducted into the French Legion of Honor.
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Athens home damaged by fire
ATHENS — Fire destroyed a large two-story barn and part of the adjoining farmhouse Thursday morning at 49 Brighton Road, state Route 151.
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New members join Somerset County Commission
SKOWHEGAN — Lloyd Trafton of West Forks and Robin Frost of Palmyra were sworn into office Wednesday as the newest members of the Board of Somerset County Commissioners.
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Psychics among hundreds of tipsters in Ayla case
WATERVILLE — Hundreds of tips have been phoned in to police investigating the disappearance of 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds, some of which are coming from people who are calling themselves psychics.
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Ayla case now in state police hands
WATERVILLE — The search for 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds is now a criminal investigation and the Maine State Police are taking the lead, Waterville Police Chief Joseph Massey said Friday.
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‘Psychics’ lend visions to search for toddlers
WATERVILLE — Hundreds of tips have been phoned in to police investigating the disappearance of 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds, some of which are coming from people who are calling themselves psychics.
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Ayla now a criminal case
WATERVILLE — The search for 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds is now a criminal investigation and the Maine State Police are taking the lead, Waterville Police Chief Joseph Massey said Friday.
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Police narrow search for Ayla Reynolds
WATERVILLE — The sprawling police command center at City Hall still hummed on Thursday as the search for missing toddler Ayla Reynolds entered its 13th day, but it was a quieter hum than last week.