William Ricky McCarty Jr. is charged with elevated aggravated assault and aggravated assault in the shooting of Charles Quimby, who has permanent injuries
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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Skowhegan ‘Indians’ fans rally to overturn vote
Supporters of keeping the nickname for school sports teams launch a petition drive.
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Skowhegan’s decision to retire ‘Indians’ nickname faces hurdles
Some in the community say they will fight the change, while others are grappling with how and when to make it.
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Skowhegan schools become last in Maine to retire ‘Indians’ nickname
The 14-9 vote by the SAD 54 board concludes a years-long debate that divided residents over whether its sports teams’ name was offensive to Native Americans.
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Somerset County Sheriff’s Office locates dog killed in crash last month
Chief Deputy James Ross and members of the Madison Fire Department found Tootie by using extrication equipment to pry apart the vehicle’s fire wall and dash compartment.
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Man found dead at Palmyra motel died of natural causes, police say
Richard Langlais, 62, could have been dead for a week or more before his body was found Wednesday at Lovley’s Motel.
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Madison man who cut deal with prosecutors in fatal 2015 crash arrested again
Jonathan Cayford, 26, allegedly violated probation this week with a harassment charge and could be sent back to jail
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Maine education department urges schools to ‘refrain’ from using Native American mascots
The notice by the Maine Department of Education comes a week before the school board for Skowhegan-based SAD 54 is set to deliberate further over their schools’ “Indians” nickname.
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Fourth-graders make their case for which chickadee should be the state bird
A presentation will be made Wednesday to ask the Legislature to distinquish if the boreal chickadee of black-capped chickadee is the state bird.
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Harmony woman who lost her fiancé in fatal crash seeks missing dog
Tootie, a Pekingese and a poodle mix, remains missing from the crash site off U.S. Route 201 in Bingham, where Brenda Cote’s fiancé, Michael Handy, was killed in a head-on crash.