Talk of the Town: Mark LaFlamme finally checks his mail box.
Mark LaFlamme
Street Talk: How to assemble a posse and retrieve a stolen bike
Jess Paquette, a local busker, had her bike and ukulele stolen. After a few posts on Facebook, the community rallied to find the missing stuff—and succeeded, mostly.
Talk of the town: Naked trees and fuzzy wieners
GIANT RODENTS INVADE! Not really, but when I first glanced at the story about a giant hamster wheel floating up on a beach in Florida, I thought there was an actual hamster inside and Jack, that thing would have been huuuuge! It’s a little disappointing to discover that it was just some dude huffing along […]
Street Talk: When newspapers were king
Reading news through a digital medium is long on efficiency but short on charm. There’s a certain just-the-facts discipline about it that discourages dawdling when dawdling was always the kind of fun of reading a newspaper.
Someone must have started a business hauling naked guys around Lewiston
Talk of the Town: Here and gone — naked guys, potato sticks and plastic shopping bags.
Street Talk: Arguing with a fool
I’m pretty sure that if I kept track, I’d find that I talk to myself way, WAY more than I talk to others.
Talk of the town: Going my way?
Supermarket flaggers, the state of the economy and too many poles: The view from writer Mark LaFlamme’s desk.
Mark LaFlamme: Don’t step on any sparklers
Talk of the Town: Readers know a lot about pedaling pet passengers and names that rhyme with mayor. But do they know what NOT to do with fireorks?
Eureka! Walmart pole mystery solved!
Street Talk: Behold the A-pillar blind spot, the cause of so much woe and/or hilarity.
Mark LaFlamme: Who WAS that masked dog?
Talk of the Town: It’s unlikely the dog’s name is Goggles McGee and that Leo Sayer will run for mayor. But a columnist can dream.