Two Maine lawmakers want to eliminate a section of state law that allows a person to petition for license reinstatement.
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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Speaking in Skowhegan, Sen. Collins cites need for ‘fanatical moderates’
The senator addresses a full house at the Maine Town Meeting, saying ‘we need centrists, pragmatists to be as active in shaping the political debate as the energized far left and the aggressive right.’
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Bad year for ticks propels demand for Skowhegan company’s anti-bug items
The owners of Stitching Specialties LLC and Dog Not Gone Visibility Products have opened a factory outlet store.
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Auction offers more than 3,000 pieces of equipment from former Madison mill
The new owners also hope to sell the closed paper producer’s real estate and the vacant buildings.
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Man banned from driving for life after fatal Skowhegan crash can apply for license
A judge rules that state law does not prevent him from reapplying.
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Skowhegan to host BikeMaine ride
The estimated 355-mile ride will be held Sept. 9-16.
Posted inBusiness, Life & Culture, Local & State, News
Traffic means profits along the annual Cornville 10-mile yard sale route this weekend
Event, now in its 34th year, includes streets in Skowhegan and side roads all the way from Route 150 in Athens to U.S. Route 2 on the Kennebec River.
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Investigation continues into cause of fatal accident on I-95 in Benton
The vehicle traveled some 300 feet from the point it left the interstate to where it landed in the median in single-vehicle crash that killed Mary Ricci, 80, of Portland, police said.
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Portland woman, 80, dies in crash on I-95 in Benton
The car went airborne and landed on its roof, killing Mary Ricci.
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Maine women team up on project to help finance new home for family
Two dozen volunteers give a face-lift to an Oakland house that will be sold to raise funds to build a Habitat for Humanity home.