SKOWHEGAN — When Nancy Ames’ daughter was a child, she would surround herself with colorful stuffed toys to fall asleep.
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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Road construction creating deadly turn, say Skowhegan residents
SKOWHEGAN — Residents of Hilton Hill Road awaited word Thursday from state transportation officials about a road project they say is dangerous and could result in tragedy.
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Skowhegan gets grant for municipal parking area
SKOWHEGAN — The town of Skowhegan has been awarded a $400,000 grant to improve the municipal parking area with pedestrian walkways, lighting, trees and directional signs.
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Road worries Skowhegan residents
SKOWHEGAN — Bob Ashley of Hilton Hill Road is afraid someone is going to get killed if construction plans aren’t changed where his road meets Route 150.
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Downtown Skowhegan demolition starts Saturday
Crews from McCarthy Enterprises will begin demolishing three downtown buildings at the corner of Madison Avenue and Commercial Street on Saturday.
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Kennebec Behavioral Health move approved, criticized
SKOWHEGAN — A plan to move Kennebec Behavioral Health offices and daytime outpatient care to a house on Water Street was approved unanimously by the staff review committee of the Planning Board, even though it drew opposition from an abutter Wednesday who said his quality of life will be destroyed by 60 to 75 mental health patients visiting the center daily.
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Move by mental health care provider approved
SKOWHEGAN — A plan to move Kennebec Behavioral Health offices and daytime outpatient care to a house on Water Street was approved unanimously by the staff review committee of the Planning Board, even though it drew opposition from an abutter Wednesday who said his quality of life will be destroyed by 60 to 75 mental health patients visiting the center daily.
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Foraging fearlessly for fungi
In the world of edible, wild-mushroom gathering, it’s all about timing.
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In downtown Skowhegan, eyesore soon to be no more
SKOWHEGAN — The three-story building with the flaking yellow paint and vacant windows — Skowhegan’s downtown eyesore — will be gone before the snow flies.
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Margaret Chase Smith — and many others — worked here
SKOWHEGAN — “There are eleven Bostons, many Londons, but only one Skowhegan.”