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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PublishedFebruary 10, 2013
Opera house could see new life
A Skowhegan chamber of commerce official has a plan to build interest among businesses to attract more acts.
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PublishedFebruary 1, 2013
Union rejects Sappi contract, setting stage for strike vote
59 electrical workers at Sappi’s Skowhegan mill reject the offer, but members of the machinists union agree to it and will return to work.
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2013
Sappi’s Skowhegan mill touts global competitiveness
A rare look inside the seventh-largest coated paper mill in the world . . .
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2013
Maine man gets 27 months for stealing firearms
Roger Briscoe, 34, broke into a home in Jay last January and made off with guns including six semi-automatic rifles and five semi-automatic pistols.
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PublishedJanuary 18, 2013
Madison family loses home to early morning Friday fire
The Madison fire chief says that despite subzero temperatures, the metal roof kept the fire “like an oven” inside the building.
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2013
Retired Skowhegan lawyer charged with forgery
Police say Charles H. Veilleux, 79, passed counterfeit cash through a Western Union branch in August.
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PublishedJanuary 7, 2013
Where wild boar came from still a mystery, official says
A state biologist says a wild boar killed in Somerset County in November did not have rabies or any of the swine viruses domestic pig owners worry about. Where the boar came from, however, remains unknown. “It’s kind of a mystery, still,” Kendall Marden, a wildlife biologist with the state Department of Inland Fisheries and […]
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2013
Sonar spots Rangeley snowmobiles, but iceover, weather put off recovery
Search called off until next week when wind is expected to die down; Warden Service warn people to stay off the ice
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PublishedDecember 11, 2012
Skowhegan police find abused poodle’s owners; charges expected
The dog was euthanized by Somerset Animal Shelter last month because of the severity of its injuries.
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PublishedDecember 10, 2012
Cornville house fire ignites ammunition, fireworks
“It sounded like a war zone with ammunition going off everywhere,” a neighbor says.
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