About 100 students in five teams had a field day learning about forestry, wildlife, biology, ecology and invasive species.
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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Madison school district budget validation meeting is 7 p.m. Monday at the junior high school
Proposed $9.8 million budget is up $217,800 over the current budget, which expires July 1.
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Oakland house gets a woman’s touch on Saturday — National Women Build Day
Sponsored by Waterville Area Habitat For Humanity, the house was fixed up for resale by about 25 women.
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National Free Comic Book Day proves genre’s popularity across age, gender lines
Events Saturday at the Waterville Public Library featured free comic books, costumes and comic book character composition.
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Veteran radio personality from Solon also mystic who channels her spirit guide
Annie Stillwater Gray, 70, has written three books, with a fourth in the works, about guardian angels she calls spirit guides.
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Somerset County Jail inmate who overdosed saved by opioid antidote Narcan
The medical emergency happened Tuesday at the East Madison facility, where heroin possibly laced with fentanyl was smuggled in.
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Four candidates vying for open Skowhegan Board of Selectmen seat
The candidates are seeking the post of Donald Skillings, the board chairman, who is not seeking reelection.
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Renovation continues for charter high school due to open in August in downtown Skowhegan
Cornville Regional Charter School is expanding to include grade 9 in the new high school and a pre-kindergarten on South Factory Street
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St. Albans man escapes serious injury after truck rips wires off Newport home
Kenneth Mower, 23, apparently fell asleep at the wheel of his 2014 gray Nissan truck Tuesday morning when he hit a tractor-trailer, a snowmobile and a utility pole.
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Skowhegan man claiming he was racially taunted indicted for assault
Charles Adam Fairley allegedly used a doctor’s scalpel to slash another man.