SKOWHEGAN — A Hallowell-based pyrotechnics company is awaiting the outcome of a vote at a special town meeting next month that will determine how consumer fireworks would be used in town.
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 mulls over fireworks
SKOWHEGAN — A Hallowell-based pyrotechnics company is awaiting the outcome of a vote at a special town meeting next month that will determine how consumer fireworks would be used in town.
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