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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PublishedNovember 21, 2011
Veteran had war scars
FARMINGTON — The father of a man shot and killed by a police officer Saturday morning said Sunday his son had been a U.S. Army Ranger who served in Afghanistan and had come home with severe combat stress.
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PublishedNovember 21, 2011
Parents of dead veteran talk of scars
FARMINGTON — The father of a man shot and killed by a police officer Saturday morning said Sunday his son had been a U.S. Army Ranger who served in Afghanistan and had come home with severe combat stress.
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PublishedNovember 20, 2011
Local program teaches girls to look past stereotypical roles
WATERVILLE — Nine-year-old Romy Gerspenberger of Norridgewock was one of 14 hardy girls Saturday learning forestry skills from women on the Colby College Woodsmen’s Team. It was a good workout, the fourth-grader said.
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PublishedNovember 20, 2011
Farmington police officer shoots, kills man
FARMINGTON — A Farmington man with a long history of run-ins with police was shot and killed by a police officer Saturday morning outside the town’s municipal building, a spokeswoman for the Maine Attorney General’s Office said.
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PublishedNovember 20, 2011
Somerset center staffers train for quick response to missing children
SKOWHEGAN — An estimated 2,000 children under the age of 18 are reported missing in the United States every day. For quick response to such calls locally, staffers at Somerset Regional Communication Center have completed training in the Missing Kids and 911 Readiness Project, partnering them with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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PublishedNovember 20, 2011
Officer kills man with knife
FARMINGTON — A Farmington man with a long history of run-ins with police was shot and killed by a police officer Saturday morning outside the town’s municipal building, a spokeswoman for the Maine Attorney General’s Office said.
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PublishedNovember 20, 2011
Program teaches girls to look past stereotypical roles
WATERVILLE — Nine-year-old Romy Gerspenberger of Norridgewock was one of 14 hardy girls Saturday learning forestry skills from women on the Colby College Woodsmen’s Team.
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PublishedNovember 20, 2011
Center improves missing children response
SKOWHEGAN — An estimated 2,000 children under the age of 18 are reported missing in the United States every day.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2011
DOT officials outline road safety fixes for HIlton Hill residents
SKOWHEGAN — Installing radar, moving guardrails and applying tire-gripping material for better traction on roadways all were part of a fix presented Friday by state highway officials to Hilton Hill Road residents who fear the new intersection at state Route 150 is unsafe.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2011
Skowhegan to serve free Thanksgiving dinner
SKOWHEGAN — A free Thanksgiving dinner will be served Thursday — Thanksgiving Day — from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Skowhegan Community Center, off West Front Street.
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