Writer Mark LaFlamme attends this year’s Fourth of July festivities as good-old Yankee Doodle Downer.
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Street Talk: Eyes wide shut and stuff
The Order of Streets It’s incredibly sad. For more than a quarter-century I’ve been working the crime beat in downtown Lewiston. For more than a quarter century, I’ve failed to memorize the order of streets that run between Pine and Ash. Is it Blake, Pierce, Bartlett, Howard, Howe, Shawmut, Horton? Does Pierce come before Blake? […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Move along, nothing to see here
The interview was just terrific. The subject was a man who had been an emergency dispatcher for more than two decades, and he had amazing stories to tell. Powerful stories about trying to keep steady and calm when bullets were flying, when cars were crashing or when buildings were burning. A significant chunk of the […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Win a prize for your honey
Light of the seven I SWEAR I saw George Carlin Tuesday afternoon on Pine Street in Lewiston. He was standing on a corner, bearded, one eyebrow lifted in bemusement and scowling in that Carlin way. It was him, all right. Never mind that he was reported dead more than 10 years ago, I know what […]
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Street Talk: Siren songs of the Androscoggin River
Maybe river whispers promises of sweet relief if one can just take that final step off the greasy bridge railing. If so, I say ignore it, my friends, at all costs.
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Mark LaFlamme: As easy as falling off a bike
Taking it to the streets On Tuesday, one of my downtown friends reported a woman dragging a vacuum cleaner up Pine Street just a few minutes before midnight. Finally there’s someone willing to get out there and clean up the downtown. A-OK, good buddy Well, it finally happened. While attempting to fix a broken knob […]
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Mark LaFlamme: It’s a great world when the simple things thrill you
I was riding down Walnut Street in Lewiston when I happened upon a young boy playing with what appeared to be an old curtain rod. It was one of those flimsy L-shaped things but the boy seemed to have crafted it, through sheer imagination, into the best toy on the block. For a little while, […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Ode to Elizabeth Ann and nakedness
Elizabeth Ann So, I rode over to this store at the corner of East Avenue and Sabattus Street in Lewiston the other day and figured I’d stop in for old time’s sake. Ever since I moved to Lewiston, Elizabeth Ann was The Store, the place you’d go at midnight for absolutely everything you needed. You […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Get off my lawn!
Lord of the ring. The crispy, delicious ring. You know what’s good? Humpty Dumpty Sour Cream & Onion Rings. They’re like Funyuns! Only, they’re not Funyuns! It’s just madness! Delicious, crunchy madness! Grub-a-dub So a nice lady called me up earlier in the week and reported that grubs were destroying her lawn. “I’ve got grubs,” […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Did you hear what happened on Nichols Street?
While I may not be very bright, give me 10 years, a guy with a gun, some barking dogs and Amazon, and I’ll find a way around just about any problem.