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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PublishedApril 2, 2019
Employee-owned Cianbro Corp. of Pittsfield announces purchase of Connecticut company
A/Z Corp., a Connecticut-based engineering-construction firm providing diverse industry services including design, construction, maintenance and energy management, with a focus on technology-oriented markets, has joined Cianbro.
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PublishedApril 1, 2019
Public hearing Wednesday on $12.6 million Somerset County budget for coming year
County Budget Committee to act on proposed spending package for 2019-20 at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Superior Courtroom and then to deliver it to county commissioners
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PublishedMarch 31, 2019
Somerset County 911 dispatch services to drop Augusta, Hallowell
The Regional Communications Center in Skowhegan services 19 Kennebec County towns as well as all of Somerset County.
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PublishedMarch 27, 2019
Skowhegan police chief wants to retire department’s Vietnam-era rifles, get new ones
Police Chief David Bucknam will seek bid costs for 15 new AR-15 rifles to replace the older models for every officer in the department.
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PublishedMarch 27, 2019
Roof collapses under snow load at East Madison Square Garden community entertainment venue
Completed in 1992, the popular backwoods music, art and theater hall was insured and will be rebuilt.
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PublishedMarch 26, 2019
Skowhegan’s committee studying additional bridge agrees to add member
Joel Greenwood, a planner at the Kennebec Valley Council of Governments, will assist the 10-member Second Bridge Committee in studying a proposal for another local site for a bridge over the Kennebec River.
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PublishedMarch 25, 2019
Farmington, hometown of Gov. Janet Mills, votes to oppose CMP project she supports
Voters heard from Mills on why she supports the controversial Central Maine Power transmission line, but residents at town meeting voted 262-102 to oppose the New England Clean Energy Connect project.
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PublishedMarch 25, 2019
Skowhegan woman arrested after allegedly punching man in face, shooting a BB gun at him
Police Chief David Bucknam said Mary Johnson, 35, also “became enraged” and kicked the door of a police car en route to the county jail on Monday.
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PublishedMarch 25, 2019
Canaan voters re-elect incumbent director, Dixie Ring, in school board election
Ring, the current SAD 54 board chairwoman, was challenged by at least one write-in candidate, but those names were not released Monday, the town clerk said
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PublishedMarch 22, 2019
Hospice Volunteers of Somerset County, turning 30 this year, looks for new headquarters
Kim DeMerchant, a member of the board of directors and secretary for Hospice Volunteers, used the services when her mother became ill in 2016.
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