NORRIDGEWOCK — Firefighter James Gordon has been visiting older folks in town dressed in a Santa suit for the past 25 years. He was back at it on Saturday, arriving with his helpers in a fire truck, bringing candy and season’s greetings to more than 150 people all over town.
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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Waterville child remains missing
WATERVILLE — Law enforcement and citizen search parties combed a Waterville neighborhood Sunday, but as evening fell, had not found missing 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds.
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Waterville: Search continues for missing toddler
Ayla Reynolds missing since Saturday morning
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Search for missing toddler continues
The FBI has been called in to assist state and local police and the Maine Warden Service in the search for 20-month-old Ayla Reynolds.
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Special town meeting in Cornville Monday
CORNVILLE — Voters at a special town meeting Monday night will be asked if they want to replace the retiring town clerk and town treasurer — two separate people — with a single administrative assistant, similar to a part-time town manager.
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Waterville toddler missing
WATERVILLE — Police are looking for a toddler who vanished from her bed sometime late Friday or early Saturday, and say it’s possible she was abducted.
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Waterville toddler missing
WATERVILLE — Police are looking for a toddler who vanished from her bed sometime late Friday or early Saturday, and say it’s possible she was abducted.
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Skowhegan’s beet-based de-icer will save soil, vehicles
SKOWHEGAN — What do you get when you mix high-sugar beet molasses and common highway salt?
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Vegetable-based salt treatment gentle on environment, vehicles
SKOWHEGAN — What do you get when you mix high-sugar beet molasses and common highway salt?
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Thomaston man charged with ‘bath salts’ felony
WATERVILLE — State drug enforcement agents have brought additional charges against a Thomaston man after finding a pound of the drug “bath salts” in a Jeep Wrangler that Waterville police had impounded Nov. 19.