SKOWHEGAN — For Mary and Bob Burr of Blue Ribbon Farm in Mercer, the annual Kneading Conference and the Artisan Bread Fair this week are a natural extension of the farming life they have lived together since 1976.
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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New History House museum opens in East Madison
EAST MADISON — Residents celebrated East Madison Days on Sunday with perfect weather, a parade, a sit-down luncheon and a first-time look at the town’s new History House museum.
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Festival back at drive-in
SKOWHEGAN — What do you get when you combine campy comedy, cult comics and nostalgia?
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Campy comedy featured for MIFF at the drive-in
SKOWHEGAN — What do you get when you combine campy comedy, cult comics and nostalgia?
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MAINE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Movies’ lasting power
WATERVILLE — Actor Malcolm McDowell was quick to point out that the Mid-Life Achievement Award given to him Saturday during the 14th annual Maine International Film Festival was not a “mid-life crisis award.”
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Madison man stable after losing arm in tractor mishap
Eugene St. Peter, 69, severed his right arm and left thumb, and had the side of his face and an ear scraped off in the accident, his daughter says.
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Skowhegan teens ‘board for boobies’
SKOWHEGAN — Three Skowhegan Area High School students will ride their longboards from Ellsworth to Old Orchard Beach beginning Sunday to raise awareness and cash for a cure for breast cancer.
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Skowhegan selectmen give new town manager high marks
SKOWHEGAN — Town Manager John Doucette Jr. looked back over his past three years in office and to future challenges this week after the Board of Selectmen voted to give him a positive performance evaluation. The vote was unanimous.
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Burglaries were a lot of work, say Skowhegan victims
Burglars broke through three doors, a padlocked gate and cut a hole in a sheetrock wall to get into and rob a downtown rafting and kayak supply business this week.
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Harmony woman building bridges to awareness
HARMONY — A Harmony woman wants to rename two local bridges after a mother and her two children who were killed recently in a domestic violence incident in Dexter.