The unidentified schoolboys will appear in court March 26 according to the district attorney.
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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Historic Skowhegan inn, beyond repair, is to be torn down
The Skowhegan Economic Development Corp. purchases the three-story building and plans to tear it down.
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Local food sovereignty law proposed at Starks town meeting
The proposal is based on ordinances in other towns that allow farms to bypass regulations and sell goods directly to consumers.
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After 2 threatening messages, Skowhegan school attendance low
There has been anxiety among parents and students alike, school officials say.
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Four boys from Waterville high school charged in series of threats
One of four students who have been charged with terrorizing said he wanted ‘to pull a Sandy Hook,’ while charges are pending against a fifth boy.
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Cornville woman charged after heroin found in her bra
Miranda Schmidt admitted to Fairfield police that she had concealed the drug worth $12,000 in her bra.
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Police charge 2 boys after second threat against Skowhegan high school
Skowhegan area schools were on ‘lockout’ Thursday as police detained the boys during the investigation into a second message from ‘Ray Dar’ threatening violence.
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Skowhegan-area schools closed after online threat shows gun
School officials and police said classes were canceled as a precautionary measure following the social media post Tuesday night that showed an AR-15 assault rifle and the threat.
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Man fatally shoots himself during standoff and sister says she might have prevented it
She believes that if authorities had contacted her during the nearly 12-hour standoff she might have been able to talk her brother safely out of the house.
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Madison farmer closes snowmobile trail after ‘shocking’ shooting of pregnant cow
Clayton Tibbetts says he doesn’t know who killed the animal, and the local snowmobile club says it’s ‘outraged by the horrible act.’