Talk of the Town: An unusual tour of Deutschland featuring boots, Greene sand, Reddy Kilowatt, heroes, late-night accidents and so much mehr. Want some schnitzel with that?
Mark LaFlamme
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Street Talk: What is the ghastliest news of all?
For me, the most dreadful stories of them all are those where, in the glow of the police and ambulance lights, the pain is only just beginning.
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Mark LaFlamme: Dead batteries and bruised tailbones
Talk of the Town: ‘I’m getting a lot of spam lately that begins with ‘Hello, dear.’ ‘
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Mark LaFlamme: Why Maine instead of Florida?
‘Why?’ I asked the feckless remains of my splintered shovel. ‘Why in the name of all things holy does anyone stay in Maine knowing what the winters are like?’
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Talk of the town: It feels like burning
It was a week of barb-wire cold (if you know what I mean), saltine success, sand snitches, being Greene with shame, and no honeymoon photos.
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The arctic throat punch and other scary weather terms
Street Talk: This arctic blast isn’t going to make a Jack-Nicholson-at-the-end-of-‘The-Shining’-style popsicle out of me, no sir. I’m all kinds of ready for this.
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I have been to the top of the coffee bean mountain
Street Talk: I’d go door to door preaching the word of the cold brew carafe if I thought it would help deliver you poor souls from that wretched paste you swill morning after morning.
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I ain’t eatin’ that
This week, columnist LaFlamme vociferates on saltines, grocery bags, top 10 lists and French pastry.
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Remembering ‘the bike lady,’ Ruth Slovenski
Street Talk: Ruth Slovenski was well known for many things in the Bates College community and elsewhere, but in my small circle, she’s known most famously for her bicycle.
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Talk of the town: You’re as charming as an eel . . . oops
Jonesing for plastic bags, the woes of last-minute shopping, and fear of combusting plants: columnist Mark LaFlamme weighs in.