Ryan Emery, 31, of New Portland allegedly tried to drive down the river after a night of drinking with his friends.
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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Anti-bullying speaker says there’s power in being kind
Stan Davis of Wayne is a retired child and family therapist and school counselor in the Messalonskee district.
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Oakland celebrates new gazebo, community spirit that built it
Nearly 200 people were expected at a cookout Saturday night at the town beach on Messalonskee Lake, where the gazebo stands.
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Works of ‘Johnny Appleseed’ of Maine art world to be displayed in Madison
Willis Pelton painted landscapes during summers in the 1900s and exchanged them for meals and a place to sleep.
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Truck driver never saw pedestrian who died after he was struck Tuesday, police say
Traffic was heavy on Route 201 in Skowhegan when Charles Atwood, 84, was hit after getting his morning newspaper.
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Pedestrian dies a day after being hit by truck in Skowhegan
Charles Atwood, 84, was struck as he crossed Route 201; the driver of a car that was also struck remains in critical condition.
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Maine paper carrier’s bike is stolen and a kind stranger comes to his aid
A Cornville woman starts a GoFundMe fundraiser for Tom Floyd of the Morning Sentinel, ‘a guy that is working in the crappiest Maine weather,’ doing his job ‘however he can, the best he can.’
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Suspected medical marijuana thief charged in theft of motor
The Cornville man is accused of stealing pounds of pot from a licensed caregiver’s home.
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CMP faces questions about power line plan for western Maine
People at a public information meeting say they believe the project will serve wind farms.
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Mansion coming together piecemeal in Cape Elizabeth
The Victorian-era house trucked in several pieces from Skowhegan is being reconstituted on the Charles E. Jordan Road.