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 14, 2011
Skowhegan selectmen give new town manager high marks
SKOWHEGAN — Town Manager John Doucette Jr. looked back over his past three years in office and to future challenges this week after the Board of Selectmen voted to give him a positive performance evaluation. The vote was unanimous.
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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 13, 2011
Harmony woman building bridges to awareness
HARMONY — A Harmony woman wants to rename two local bridges after a mother and her two children who were killed recently in a domestic violence incident in Dexter.
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PublishedJuly 12, 2011
Man says he was hospitalized after West Athens Fourth of July fracas
WEST ATHENS — Another victim of bloody fights at this year’s West Athens Fourth of July parade came forward Monday to say he was attacked, unprovoked, after a traffic accident along the parade route.
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PublishedJuly 12, 2011
Two drivers remain hospitalized after Madison collision
MADISON — Two people remained in a Bangor hospital Monday after a head-on collision Saturday morning on U.S. Route 148, also known as White School House Road.
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PublishedJuly 10, 2011
Exhibit puts Skowhegan’s Civil War ties in spotlight
SKOWHEGAN — One-hundred and fifty years ago next week, a divided nation was cast into the first significant conflict of the American Civil War at a place Union forces called Bull Run and the Confederates called Manassas.
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PublishedJuly 9, 2011
‘Every so often he … loses it’
SKOWHEGAN — Shaun D. Corson of Madison told his mother Sandra Walker on Sunday that he thought he may have hurt his girlfriend in Florida last month.
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PublishedJuly 9, 2011
Corson’s legal woes continue to worsen
SKOWHEGAN — Shaun D. Corson of Madison told his mother Sandra Walker on Sunday that he thought he may have hurt his girlfriend in Florida last month.
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PublishedJuly 8, 2011
Fairfield man pleads not guilty to child sex crimes
A Fairfield man has pleaded not guilty in a Connecticut courtroom to sex crimes involving a child, his lawyer said this week.
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PublishedJuly 7, 2011
Suspect in Skowhegan damage linked to West Athens fight
SKOWHEGAN — A West Athens man who reportedly was at a bloody brawl at the Fourth of July parade in that town was arrested Wednesday morning in Skowhegan following another bloody fight, according to police.
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