These were the days before the internet and cellphones, but I tell you, rumors of a missing kid still had a way of spreading like wildfire. Word spread through corner stores, laundromats, lumber yards, hair salons . . .
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Mark LaFlamme: Where are the hula hoops, harmonicas and pogo sticks?
A good day to castrate farm animals Hey, don’t look at me like that. This wasn’t my idea. I ain’t castrating anybody. I’m just pointing out that, according to The Farmer’s Almanac, now is a good time if you’re into this sort of thing. And let’s face it: is anything more embarrassing than performing a […]
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Mark LaFlamme: The truck makes the man
I’m pretty sure that simply by thinking real hard, I could grow a mustache on the spot.
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Mark LaFlamme: Gourd fondling enthusiasts rejoice!
Thinking before you speak ain’t no fun You know what else stinks about this work-from-home business? The constant threat of private moments being shared through Zoom or whatever god-forsaken technology presently has its giant eyes and ears open in your house. My wife, working from her home office in the living room, is always engaged […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Yes, professor, objectivity is still a thing
Objectivity, according to Professor Emeritus Ted Glasser of Stanford University, is just too cumbersome, and it gets in the way of what a journalist should consider his or her REAL job: activism
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Mark LaFlamme: ‘Mostly alcohol’ explains so much
The Staggering Man “Six Lewiston stores will square off in front of the Maine Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations,” according to a business story on Wednesday, “each making a case at a Zoom’d public hearing that it should receive the lone agency liquor store license up for grabs.” Now, tell me this doesn’t […]
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Talk of the town: Must be the season of the witch
How does my garden grow? Writing about local gardens all last week, I sure learned a lot about vegetables and flowers and possibly chickens. Mostly, though, the experience helped me to finally conquer a lifelong fear of string beans and for that I’m grateful. Maybe now the nightmares will stop. Time flies. Or doesn’t. It’s […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Maybe the Roomba is making 911 calls from the future
The Roomba made me do it Somewhere in Lewiston, or possibly Auburn, last week, police went to a home after receiving a 911 call with nobody on the line. According to the man who lives at the home, it was his robot floor sweeper that sent out the call. I don’t know the technical ins […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Kids these days have a way of making us feel inadequate
I was just a terrible kid. I mean, no. I wasn’t really. All things considered, I was all right. I had a paper route and sometimes actually delivered the papers. I was generally nice to animals, babies and old people. I said please and thank you and I ate all my vegetables, unless I could get the […]
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Fray over graffiti on Cowan Mill turns into an online gutter fight
Somebody dared to display ‘Hope’ and ‘Love’ in Lewiston.