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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PublishedApril 18, 2011
New postcard-sender mystery develops
FAIRFIELD — Is Sonny’s Superfan the new Postcard Jack?
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PublishedApril 16, 2011
Money transferred to police after Skowhegan drug raid
SKOWHEGAN — Selectmen this week approved the transfer of $1,500 to the Skowhegan Police Department in a cash forfeiture case initiated by District Attorney’s Office.
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PublishedApril 16, 2011
Skowhegan selectmen approve alternative cap
SKOWHEGAN — Selectmen this week voted to use spending recommendations from the Budget and Finance Committee as a cap on articles at the annual town meeting, but only if those figures are higher than recommendations made by the Board of Selectmen.
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PublishedApril 15, 2011
Historians discuss Civil War soldier’s life
SKOWHEGAN — Of the 294 men from Skowhegan who went off to fight in the Civil War, 85 of them never returned.
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PublishedApril 13, 2011
Medical Examiner IDs fire victims
The cremated remains of Rosalina Zamora, one of three people who died March 13 in a fire in Unity Township, will be flown home to her native Philippines on Monday, her surviving son-in-law said Tuesday.
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PublishedApril 12, 2011
Skowhegan Walmart turns into Supercenter
SKOWHEGAN — Shotguns and deer rifles sit in glass cases next to baseball gloves and picnic supplies.
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PublishedApril 11, 2011
In Skowhegan, an education for the real world
SKOWHEGAN — Missy McCaslin, a junior at Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield, recently demonstrated a hospital operating room procedure with four other students, all of them dressed in surgical caps and gowns.
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PublishedApril 11, 2011
Gifford’s Ice Cream containers see new design as part of rebranding
SKOWHEGAN — Skowhegan’s family-owned Gifford’s Ice Cream is giving itself a make-over with a new packaging look and a new logo.
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PublishedApril 9, 2011
Manager: Dog appears neglected, malnourished
SKOWHEGAN — The manager of the local animal shelter says she needs help finding the owner of a chocolate Labrador retriever that was brought in Thursday looking dangerously malnourished.
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PublishedApril 8, 2011
Hartland teenagers arrested for armed robbery
PRESQUE ISLE — Two boys from Hartland were arrested Thursday on armed robbery charges after allegedly holding a Bangor taxi-cab driver at knife point in Presque Isle and threatening his life early Wednesday.
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