Dozens of volunteers on Monday packed up more than 175 boxes of Thanksgiving Day meals at the Federated Church for pickup Tuesday morning.
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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Fire guts two-family home in Skowhegan
No injuries were reported in the Monday morning fire, and crews were able to save two cats from the burning building off U.S. Route 2.
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Mercer family maintains positive outlook raising turkeys for Thanksgiving despite dad’s illness
Scott Greaney, his wife and three kids have run the farm with humor and love during Greaney’s cancer, chemotherapy and other illnesses.
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Skowhegan mom charged after 5-year-old found playing in mud puddle
Shawna Towers, 29, claim she was unaware that her child was outside, dressed only in a shirt provided by a passer-by, police said
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Robbery reported in downtown Skowhegan
The person who called police just after midnight Thursday, claiming to be the victim, has refused to cooperate with the investigation, calling the report’s truthfulness into question.
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New Sharon woman convicted of contempt of court for violating ban on owning animals
Carol Murphy has previous convictions for animal cruelty and violated the ban in 2014, but the trial was delayed until this week
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Saturday fire on Ford Hill Road in Hartland started in bedroom
An overheated electrical cord left a family of three homeless, but the house was insured.
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Police, firefighters pull man’s body from abandoned well in North Anson
The sheriff’s office identified the victim as Wilbert Bailey and said he had fallen into the well while inspecting it.
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Former Skowhegan manager honored with Chamber’s ‘most dignified’ award
Patricia A. Dickey, who worked for 41 years in the Skowhegan Town Office, is this year’s winner of the Whittemore Award.
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Cause of Hartland blaze probed by fire marshal’s office
A husband, a wife and an 8-month-old son were left homeless by the Saturday morning fire on Ford Hill Road.