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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PublishedMarch 29, 2015
Sidney seeks block grant to upgrade local music camp
Voters approve a move that could lead to the camp being converted to an arts charter school.
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PublishedMarch 24, 2015
Solon woman killed in Madison crash
The collision involved a flatbed tow truck and a sport utility vehicle, and may have been the result of a mechanical problem, police say.
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PublishedMarch 22, 2015
Maine Stitching Specialties to expand at Skowhegan factory
With the help of a federal grant, the owners will buy their current site, the former Dirigo Stitching factory near downtown, and add equipment and employees.
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PublishedMarch 21, 2015
Higher education leader will be honored
Barbara Woodlee, a force in community colleges, enters the state Women’s Hall of Fame.
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PublishedMarch 19, 2015
Former Fairfield man who tried to have pregnant wife killed is freed
Victor Frascone has been released on probation after soliciting a gruesome Halloween murder and officials say he’ll be closely monitored.
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PublishedMarch 16, 2015
Dozens of vehicles slid off I-95 in Maine on Sunday
Nobody was injured and not all the vehicles, between Augusta and Newport, had to be towed, as police say drivers were simply going too fast for conditions..
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PublishedMarch 13, 2015
Items that caused evacuation at Skowhegan Town Office were harmless
The Maine State Police bomb squad has determined the materials, which were labeled “inert,” were inactive military training devices.
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PublishedMarch 5, 2015
Education called key to Indian mascot dispute
Skowhegan’s superintendent reported to the school board Thursday night on a meeting with a former Penobscot Nation chief.
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PublishedMarch 4, 2015
Bingham Wind project gets go-ahead
Friends of Maine’s Mountains abandoned its appeal of a decision approving the 56-turbine wind farm in Bingham, Mayfield Township and Kingsbury Plantation.
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PublishedFebruary 26, 2015
Skowhegan’s ‘Black Ninja’ burglar gets three years in prison
Jonathan M. Strickland is convicted of being the masked man who robbed a restaurant and a state fairgrounds office and left a note claiming to be ‘the Black Ninja.’
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