SKOWHEGAN — Sappi Fine Paper North America’s Somerset Mill has been certified as a renewable energy generator by the Center for Resource Solutions’ Green-e Marketplace program. The mill qualified for the designation through $49 million in new investments last year to upgrade the pulp mill’s recovery boiler and related equipment.
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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Little left after Mercer business fire
MERCER — Pieces of the charred roof and ceiling continued to fall Monday morning into what was left of Pick & Paws Collectibles on U.S. Route 2 after fire gutted most of the building Saturday night.
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Rafting store in Skowhegan closes due to burglary stress
SKOWHEGAN — One of three downtown businesses burglarized this summer has closed its store, citing financial and emotional stress since an early July break-in and theft.
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Rafting store closes due to burglary stress
SKOWHEGAN — One of three downtown businesses burglarized this summer has closed its store, citing financial and emotional stress since an early July break-in and theft.
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Benton substation to house new CMP transformer
BENTON — Central Maine Power Co. will be moving a 286-ton electrical power transformer on Monday from a cargo terminal in Searsport to the company’s new substation on Albion Road in Benton.
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Skowhegan organizations must file petitions as part of funding process
SKOWHEGAN — Selectmen want to make sure the town’s social and community service organizations follow the rules for funding requests for next year.
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Benton substation to receive new CMP transformer
BENTON — Central Maine Power Co. will be moving a 286-ton electrical power transformer on Monday from a cargo terminal in Searsport to the company’s new substation on Albion Road in Benton.
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On food’s future, speaker says ‘glance back with intelligence’
SKOWHEGAN — To reverse health problems such as diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure and cholesterol — while creating local jobs and community spirit — America needs to look to the past for its food production.
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Skowhegan to host tour of art works
SKOWHEGAN — Give the monkey a quarter, ring the bell and count slowly to 100 …
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Mattress business to buttress downtown Skowhegan
SKOWHEGAN — There is an appliance store, a clothing store, a jeweler, a computer shop, law offices, art galleries, a bakery and a flower shop already doing business in downtown Skowhegan.