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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PublishedAugust 19, 2014
Lone canoeist reaches Skowhegan after nearly 500 miles of paddling
A Vermont woman is close to the end of a multi-river canoe trip from Lake Seboomook, north of Greenville, to Fairfield.
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PublishedAugust 18, 2014
Manager says Skowhegan didn’t need reason to terminate fire chief
The town manager told Richard Fowler Jr. in a letter of dismissal that he was fired without a public hearing because he was a probationary employee.
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PublishedAugust 11, 2014
Fired Skowhegan fire chief led NH department now under criminal investigation
Richard E. Fowler Jr. had been the fire department chief in Farmington, N.H., during a time period that money allegedly disappeared.
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PublishedAugust 11, 2014
Skowhegan fires its fire chief after only 3 months on job
Chief Richard E. Fowler Jr. says ‘things just didn’t work out between us.’
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PublishedAugust 10, 2014
Special-needs creatures wow Skowhegan fairgoers
The Staples Safari Zoo proves that even cast-off animals have their place ‘in the scheme of things.’
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PublishedAugust 2, 2014
Fairfield child porn suspect had been screened
A shelter in Waterville that employed Thomas Williams as a night attendant says he had good credentials.
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PublishedJuly 28, 2014
Suspect in Christmas Eve jewel theft arrested
Stephen Frappier, 28, of Oakland, wanted for allegedly stealing a widow’s jewelry on Christmas Eve, was arrested Sunday in Fairfield.
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PublishedJuly 23, 2014
CMP says Skowhegan man accused of substation break-ins lucky to be alive
Police have charged Michael Grant, 30, with breaking into electric system substations in Winslow and Waterville to steal copper piping, an act power company officials say could have killed him.
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PublishedJuly 21, 2014
Maine farm takes medicinal herbs local
Gail Faith Edwards builds a farm-to-medicine-chest movement .
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PublishedJuly 17, 2014
Tornado confirmed in Somerset County after inspection of damage
St. Albans experienced an EF-1 tornado with winds of 80 to 90 mph, according to the National Weather Service.
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