SKOWHEGAN — A Skowhegan man was held without bail Tuesday, charged with posing as a police officer and threatening a woman, saying he had a gun when he stopped her. Jarrod Z. Standring, 26, is charged with criminal threatening, disorderly conduct, driving without a license and violating conditions of release. He’s also charged with aggravated […]
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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Former jail readies for new role in community
SKOWHEGAN — The Somerset Grist Mill and Lambke’s Maine Grains are no longer just a dream.
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Wardens search Moosehead for missing man
A kayak and backpack have been found, but strong winds and high waves were hampering search efforts today.
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Westbrook man gets 6-year term
SKOWHEGAN – A Westbrook man will spend the next six years in prison for stabbing a man in the eye on the Fourth of July in Hartland. Shane Palmer, 21, pleaded guilty Friday to elevated aggravated assault, two other assaults on separate victims and terrorizing, all in the same incident. The 19-year-old victim of the […]
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Skowhegan permit at issue for peace walk
University students and Buddhist monks, along with local activists and members of Veterans for Peace, are scheduled to march across the state in November.
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Brunswick man jailed on rape charge
Christopher Bennett, 39, is charged with gross sexual assault. The allegation was made by a New Sharon woman who knows him.
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Police, attorney general withhold most details of Skowhegan shooting
SKOWHEGAN — The initial call to police about a “despondent” man who was later shot by state police Monday was made by a crisis worker.
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Skowhegan man shot by trooper called ‘quiet,’ ‘friendly’
The Attorney General’s Office says Kemp Lybrook had an assault rifle when he approached the trooper.
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Man shot by state police in Skowhegan
The Maine Attorney General’s office investigating.
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U.S. paper companies await House vote
The currency reform bill would make it easier to investigate Chinese firms that undercut prices.