Norway woman robs store with finger Wasn’t it just a week ago that I complained, in that spleeny way I have, that nobody ever used the cartoonish finger gun to commit robberies anymore? This woman (in Thursday’s Sun Journal) failed miserably, but you have to give her credit for appreciating the classics. Although, if she was […]
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Street Talk: You're going to need fresh underpants
So, you want to hold up a convenience store. Maybe you’re looking to finance that Vicodin habit for half a day or perhaps you just need some extra dough to get through the holiday season. I’m not here to judge. It seems like everybody and his cousin is robbing stores these days and one or […]
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Talk of the town: It's a bird, it's a plane . . .
Say cheeeeese The father and son accused of an Auburn home robbery in October made for one heck of a story. It also made for one dubious mugshot. It’s hard to tell, frankly, if the younger accused bandit is snarling with defiance or if the camera caught him in mid-sneeze. Plus, it appears that his […]
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Street Talk: Dressed for success and hating it
So, I was out on the edge of Lewiston’s downtown, poking my considerable nose into the matter of whether shots had been fired in the area. I spoke with three or four people on the street, asking masterfully-crafted questions in an attempt to glean the facts for you, the reader. “What’s going on?” I inquired, […]
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Street Talk: One night in Deadwood
So, I’ve been watching “Deadwood” on Amazon Prime because it’s November and what else am I going to do with my spare time that doesn’t involve freezing parts of me that generally crave warmth? Set in an unestablished mining town in post-Civil War South Dakota, Deadwood is a wild place, lawless and volatile; a muddy […]
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Talk of the town: Pickles for everyone!
Wrong turn, Clyde I cannot be the only guy here who has accidentally walked into the lady’s room at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee in Lewiston. It happened at a hockey game a few weeks ago and I’m still traumatized. I tell you, the way the restrooms are laid out over there, with the signs posted […]
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Street Talk: Who wants breakfast?
I’m sure the nice lady meant well. But as I drooped over my coffee, swollen-eyed and garbled of thought, she exhibited all the tenacity of an overzealous police detective hellbent on punishing me for the crime of waking up. “How about some scrambled eggs with toast? I have a nice pomegranate jam.” “No thank you,” […]
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Talk of the town: Does anybody really know what time it is?
The big blow Well, what do you know. A big corker of a storm blew across the land and I wasn’t there to report on it. On vacation, I was, so when the mighty wind and rain did its thing, I was just like the rest of you civilians, fretting over power outages, complaining about […]
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Talk of the town: Let's shake on it
Intelligent design So, how do you like our new website? Pretty, ain’t it? It’s just a little something I slapped together in my spare time. I’m a man of many layers, you know. Web design comes easy to me. I’m particularly proud of those . . . link things that go across the top of […]
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Street Talk: How old is too old to trick or treat?
The kid was just slightly more than 5 feet tall, but when I climbed upon his shoulders, together we had to be close to 11 feet. That’s monstrous! Certainly the sight of an 11-foot tall snarling teenager had to be creative enough to coax an old lady out of a Zagnut or at least one […]