You got nothing on me, copper Ranking Lewiston police officers are retiring left and right these days and it’s bumming me out. Most of these guys began their careers around the same time I started at the paper, which leads me to believe that those weasels did a better job planning their exit strategies than […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Confessions of a former crime reporter
My motto in those days was: “I don’t want bad things to happen. I just wanna be there when they do.” And I meant it utterly.
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Talk of the town: Out and about in your under things
Hooking me up with some fine CGC Gosh, you people. All I did was complain that it was hard to find chocolate graham crackers in these weird, difficult times and you people came out of the woodwork like a merry band of Keebler elves. Some of you wrote to relate where I could find — […]
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Mark LaFlamme: The Return of Godzilla!
The struggle is real So, since this whole crisis began, I’ve been unable to find chocolate graham crackers at the stores. This makes no sense at all to me, but of course, neither did the Great Toilet Paper Panic that will confound historians for centuries to come. I also found that in the early days […]
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Street Talk: Need anything at The Hannaford?
Back in saner times, you wouldn’t have been considered selfish for going to the market for one measly item. Heck, you could go to Shaw’s just to use the gumball machine, no one would care.
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Mark LaFlamme: Whatever you’re doing, quit it
Incredibly bent Hate to be keep complaining about this, but it’s getting really tough filling this space when all the news is about one thing and all the news is bad. I’ve been looking for alternatives for this column space in the interest of keeping the three people who read it entertained. I’ve suggested that […]
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Coronavirus has turned ordinary Americans into snitches
The snitch culture is a side effect that is far more terrible than anything coronavirus could ever do to us.
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Mark LaFlamme: Now we have to worry about murder hornets?
Murder hornets! All right, dawgs. That’s it. I’m out. If you need me, I’ll be reporting from our bureau in northern Canada, close to the Arctic, where it’s too cold for any insect, let alone a gigantic, belligerent hornet with a three-inch stinger. I mean, seriously, 2020? It’s like somebody tapped into my own personal […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Fun in the produce section
Masque of the dread shopping trip So, we’ll all be required to wear masks now when we’re out shopping for bacon, cucumbers, American cheese and whatever else was on that stupid list my wife gave me but which I totally lost when I stopped to pet a stray dog. It’s really a shame that Halloween […]
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Mark LaFlamme: The ‘new normal’: Covering crime is now a lonely business
Complain all you want that people aren’t complying with the lingering stay-at-home orders, but that hasn’t been my experience at all. If good old-fashioned police drama in the streets isn’t enough to bring them out, I don’t imagine anything will.