The Maine Grain Alliance will use the $50,000 MTI award to study drying and storage systems in The County.
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 mansion on public auction block after bank foreclosure
The 13-room Greek Revival home, built in the 1840s, was home to attorney Dale Thistle, who suffered brain injury in a 2011 automobile accident and was forced to surrender his license to practice law.
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Waterville library floods after pipe bursts; significant damage reported
Computersand photocopiers are among the items damaged by water.
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Man indicted on manslaughter charge in 2015 crash in Starks
Police allege that Jonathan Cayford was passing other cars at 80 mph along a back road when he crashed his car, killing a passenger.
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Fire that injured Skowhegan woman and son started in boy’s bedroom
Andrea Curtis, 24, and Tyler Curtis-Benson, 4, were pulled unconscious from the mobile home fire by Skowhegan police Officer Tim Williams last Friday.
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Cornville charter school wins approval to add pre-K and high school
The school will become the first charter school in Maine to offer such programming.
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Skowhegan officer describes ‘feeling of joy’ after rescue of woman and son from fire
Tim Williams says he entered the burning mobile home without hesitation and without fear for his own well-being.
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Skowhegan police decry hoax about triple slaying
The department’s Facebook page was somehow duplicated with a phony post about fake murders in town.
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New tower kills dead zones for phones in Somerset County
Improved service in Harmony and Cambridge is getting mostly good reviews.
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New Sharon woman sentenced to nearly a year in jail over animal ban violation
Carol Murphy, 72, was sentenced Friday to 364 days in jail for violating a ban on possessing animals, her latest in a series of animal-related offenses.