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.
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Mark LaFlamme: Fiddleheads and scorpions, oh my!
‘Could L-A be future home to a scorpion farm?’ That’s a real headline from Wednesday’s paper. What, are you people drunk? It’s like you’ve never seen a B horror movie starring William Shatner and Roddy McDowall. Put your little scorpion farm next to the wrong mill or toxic waste dump and BAM! Next thing you […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Trying to write the origin story of my migraines
It was just another morning in homeroom during my junior year of high school when the words scrawled on the chalk board went up in flames. One minute they were just words scribbled in chalk and the next they were completely ablaze; a long row of meaningless words that sizzled and danced in flames […]
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Mark LaFlamme: You and what army?
Flush with pride Had quite the good time over the weekend cruising around and examining the various mounds of trash put out for Auburn’s spring cleanup, or whatever they’re calling it now. You can tell a lot about a society by the things they throw out, you know. This year, I saw toilets. Lots of […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Prom night terror
I was cruising around the Bates College campus on my motorcycle when the invasion got underway. One minute is was just a quiet Saturday on campus and the next it was outright madness. Young women were roaming lawns and sidewalks in flowing gowns and extravagant hairdos. Boys were sauntering in tuxedos all debonair, their hair […]
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Street Talk: The little girl, the old woman and the ramp: Good deeds in a weary world
It was a few weeks before Christmas and the parade of people hauling money into the newsroom showed no sign of slowing. One by one they came with envelopes stuffed with cash, coffee cans full of coins or crumpled dollar bills tugged from pockets on the spot. Some gave big, some gave small, most gave […]