Doug Harlow

Morning Sentinel

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.
advertisement
Posted inNews

Man recounts violence at parade

by Doug Harlow

WEST ATHENS — A victim in one of several fights at this year’s Fourth of July parade in West Athens said Wednesday that he and a friend were set upon inside their truck by a mob of 15 to 20 people who kicked, punched and beat them with a metal pipe.

Posted inNews

Friends, family of slain Dexter family describe troubled relationship

by Doug Harlow

DEXTER — A man from the rural town of Wellington shot and killed his estranged wife and the couple’s two children Monday morning at the woman’s home in Dexter, then shot and killed himself, state police said.

Amy Lake, a 38-year-old schoolteacher, and her children, Monica, 12, and Coty, 13, died of gunshot wounds, said Maj. Gary Wright, head of the Maine State Police Criminal Division. They were shot by Steven Lake, 37, owner of Lake’s Family Heating in nearby Harmony, he said.

Wright said police found a shotgun near the bodies and found that some sort of flammable liquid, such as gasoline, had been spread in the house on picturesque Shore Road, but wasn’t ignited.

https://stage.pressherald.com/author/doug-harlow/page/91