SKOWHEGAN — Selectmen this week approved a proposal seeking a downtown revitalization grant of up to $500,000 for improvements to the municipal parking lot.
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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‘It will put the Margaret Chase Smith Library back on the map’
SKOWHEGAN — Ownership and operation of the Margaret Chase Smith Library is coming home to Maine.
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SAD 54 officials approve borrowing plan for biomass boiler
SKOWHEGAN — State education officials and the local school board have approved a borrowing package of up to about $2 million for a biomass boiler system to heat Skowhegan Area High School and nearby Bloomfield Elementary School.
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Canaan woman killed
SKOWHEGAN — A Canaan woman was killed Thursday morning in a two-car, head-on collision on U.S. Route 2 near the Great Eddy of the Kennebec River.
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Canaan woman killed in Thursday morning crash
SKOWHEGAN — A Canaan woman was killed Thursday morning in a two-car, head-on collision on U.S. Route 2 near the Great Eddy of the Kennebec River.
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Crime forces out another Skowhegan business
SKOWHEGAN — The former owner of Skowvegas Tattoos on Madison Avenue said this week she closed her business last month after thieves nearly cleaned her out in October.
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Skowhegan ‘bombed’ by knitters
SKOWHEGAN — Helsinki. London. Vancouver. Los Angeles. Skowhegan. All have been targets of a global trend in subversive embroidery called yarn bombing — random acts of knitting that brighten urban landscapes with colorful, knitted items attached to door handles, trees, trash receptacles and utility poles.
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Ski area owner improves
SKOWHEGAN — The wife of Eaton Mountain Ski Area owner David Beers left an answering message on her cellphone Monday, a day after her husband was injured seriously in a mechanical accident on the mountain.
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Lake George Regional Park marks 20 years
SKOWHEGAN — Lake George Regional Park Director Jeff McCabe is looking to 2012 — the 20th anniversary of the park — as a time for a new truck, a new lawn mower and a new map and brochure outlining the park’s 10 miles of scenic trails.