Charles Quimby’s mother reports that her son isn’t talking much but is able to follow movements with his eyes.
Doug Harlow
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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Man was trying to help fellow boater on Hartland pond when – ‘boom’ – his boat burst into flames
Boaters from all over the lake and game wardens rushed to the scene to help after the explosion in the engine compartment.
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Skowhegan BB-shooting victim ‘stable’ but could have brain damage
Charles Quimby, 19, was shot in the head and the BB is lodged in his brain, according to his father.
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Skowhegan man in critical condition after pellet-gun shooting to head
Police say 19-year-old Charles Quimby was shot in the head Sunday by William McCarty.
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Veteran Maine playwright looking for a few good actors
Anna Freeman of West Athens is casting a new play for September.
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Pyro City Maine launches fireworks store in Skowhegan just weeks after vote
A Town Meeting vote allows the sale of pyrotechnics in town just in time for the Fourth of July with a full stock of consumer fireworks and instruction on their safe use.
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Skowhegan man charged with robbery in holdup of Skowhegan Savings Bank
DNA evidence led the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office to Dustin L. Everett, who confessed his involvement in the robbery of the Norridgewock branch.
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Skowhegan presents flag to Somerset County sheriff in memory Cpl. Eugene Cole
The Thin Blue Line flag was one of many that flew above Skowhegn streets on May 7, the day of Cpl. Eugene Cole’s funeral in Bangor.
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Farmington man indicted on 16 counts of rape of a child
One of the girls told police that Joseph Magee threatened her with a hammer when he raped her, according to a police affidavit.
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Cpl. Eugene Cole was on the ground when he was fatally shot, document says
John D. Williams, who is charged with killing the Somerset County officer in April, allegedly told investigators that ‘he was mad at Cpl. Cole for arresting his girlfriend.’