High on life and hating it In Lewiston, a woman called police to report she had taken Ecstasy and now she was feeling weird. You know. Weird feelings of euphoria and well being. A strange lack of inhibition coupled with heightened senses. It totally ruined the rave for her, I hear. She might have tried […]

I’m not saying the kid was dumb and drunk, but I got a look at his chart and his blood-alcohol level and IQ were just a few digits apart. It was early evening on Bates Street. There was a minor scuffle and a lot of yelling and police were sent to shoo people away. Most […]

May the odds be ever in your favor On Thursday, police were out looking for a kid who was last seen at a local theater watching “The Hunger Games.” But all we heard over the scanner were snippets. “. . . child . . . missing . . . Hunger Games . . .” For […]

I think what I’ll miss most are the sounds. Every morning, it’s generally the same. The doves start moaning their sad songs somewhere in the shrubbery outside my window. At the same time, there’s the invisible, electric buzz of a cicada (or a tree frog, depending on who you ask) sizzling in a nearby tree. […]

False! There’s a rumor afloat that if you run into trouble at the ATM machine, you can summon police by entering your pin backward. False! According to Snopes (where I found out that Mikey didn’t die from Pop Rocks. He was murdered by an escaped lunatic with a hook for a hand) there is no […]

I won’t lie to you. I felt bad for the singing lady and her smitten friend. They came bobbing down Walnut Street at about 10 p.m. They were half-walking, half-dancing down the sidewalk. hand-in-hand and singing a little. It had been a fun night at the bar, apparently and it was time to go home. […]

No fare So, a guy gets a taxi ride to his destination and suddenly, he doesn’t have any dough to pay the fare. So the cabbie drives the dude to the police station where – what do you know? – the passenger discovers he has a little cash after all. Must have been hiding in […]

Sometimes the sadness is almost unbearable. Take the case of Adrianne Robert, a girl who sparkled like no other. I had the supreme privilege of working with Adrianne for many years at the paper and then she moved on, to Florida. If I had any complaints about her during her Florida years it was that […]

Hot spots indeed At a community police meeting on Wednesday, at least a half-dozen people complained about being solicited by prostitutes in downtown Lewiston. It’s a real scourge, apparently. Yet, I’m a guy who spends all his time downtown and I’ve yet to get one offer from a single hooker. Not that I’m hurt by […]

As a newspaper reporter, sort of, I frequently get asked: What was your more thrilling moment? I answer the question in great detail, giving a moment-by-moment account of that exciting time. At which point, the person who asked the question gets red in the face and starts to look very uncomfortable. Oh, you meant my […]