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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PublishedJuly 17, 2011
‘Clockwork’ star honored at Maine film festival
Malcolm McDowell earns the Mid-Life Achievement Award at the 14th annual event at Colby College.
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PublishedJuly 15, 2011
Madison man stable after losing arm in tractor mishap
Eugene St. Peter, 69, severed his right arm and left thumb, and had the side of his face and an ear scraped off in the accident, his daughter says.
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PublishedJuly 15, 2011
Skowhegan teens ‘board for boobies’
SKOWHEGAN — Three Skowhegan Area High School students will ride their longboards from Ellsworth to Old Orchard Beach beginning Sunday to raise awareness and cash for a cure for breast cancer.
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PublishedJuly 13, 2011
Burglaries were a lot of work, say Skowhegan victims
Burglars broke through three doors, a padlocked gate and cut a hole in a sheetrock wall to get into and rob a downtown rafting and kayak supply business this week.
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PublishedJuly 7, 2011
Man recounts violence at parade
WEST ATHENS — A victim in one of several fights at this year’s Fourth of July parade in West Athens said Wednesday that he and a friend were set upon inside their truck by a mob of 15 to 20 people who kicked, punched and beat them with a metal pipe.
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PublishedJuly 6, 2011
Once peaceful parade turns ugly and violent in Maine town
Organizers say that this Fourth’s celebration could be West Athens’ last.
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PublishedJune 14, 2011
Friends, family of slain Dexter family describe troubled relationship
DEXTER — A man from the rural town of Wellington shot and killed his estranged wife and the couple’s two children Monday morning at the woman’s home in Dexter, then shot and killed himself, state police said.
Amy Lake, a 38-year-old schoolteacher, and her children, Monica, 12, and Coty, 13, died of gunshot wounds, said Maj. Gary Wright, head of the Maine State Police Criminal Division. They were shot by Steven Lake, 37, owner of Lake’s Family Heating in nearby Harmony, he said.
Wright said police found a shotgun near the bodies and found that some sort of flammable liquid, such as gasoline, had been spread in the house on picturesque Shore Road, but wasn’t ignited.
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PublishedMay 6, 2011
Friends, family honor trucker with one final ride
More than 20 big-rig logging trucks lead a funeral procession in Skowhegan to honor the life of longtime truck driver Maxell C. “Mackie” Moore.
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PublishedMay 4, 2011
Missing Smithfield man found dead near home
The body of Phillip Golding, who would have turned 87 on Tuesday, is discovered in thick woods.
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PublishedMay 3, 2011
Body of Smithfield man found
Phillip Golding would have turned 87 today.
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