WATERVILLE — In real estate, it’s all about location. In the world of edible, wild-mushroom gathering, it’s all about timing. Sunday’s workshop and self-guided mushroom tour of the trails and woods surrounding the recreation area were sponsored by Kennebec Messalonskee Trails.
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 woman charged with multiple felonies after police chase
A Waterville woman drove across lawns, ditches and curbs Friday night in a chase with police that began in Newport and ended with her arrest in Bangor, police said Saturday.
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Dirt racing: ‘It’s just a fun, redneck thing’
SKOWHEGAN — “Give me a Saturday night my baby by my side … Old dirt road and I’ll be just fine … A simple life and I’ll be okay … Here in small town USA …”
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Skowhegan treasurer not ready for audit; town paying
SKOWHEGAN — For the second year in a row, the town treasurer has not been ready for the annual audit of town finances; and it is costing taxpayers money.
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St. Peter’s friends speak up
SKOWHEGAN — Two women who say they grew up in Anson and were friends of homicide victim Rita St. Peter said Monday that statements alleging that Jay Stephen Mercier, accused of killing St. Peter, was the father of her child are untrue.
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Restored bikes a hit with new owners
SKOWHEGAN — Hugh Breingan putters around outside a small wooden shed that is shaded in the summer by a blue tarpaulin.
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Work to pay bigger sewer fees at Skowhegan shelter
SKOWHEGAN — Seven men from the homeless shelter at Trinity Evangelical Free Church will be working for the town soon in a muscle-for-money exchange to pay off the shelter’s sewer hookup fees.
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West Athens family’s home destroyed in blaze
WEST ATHENS — A family of five was left homeless Thursday morning after a fast-moving fire destroyed their two-story, wooden-frame house on the Valley Road.
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Domestic assault charges against GOP activist dropped
FARMINGTON — The Franklin County district attorney will not pursue criminal charges against a Republican Party activist and conservative columnist from Wilton who was arrested in July on a charge of domestic assault.
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Businesses get energy grant funds
SKOWHEGAN — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded grant money to 10 Maine businesses, including two in Somerset County, so they can invest in renewable energy and efficiency projects for their operations.