Mark LaFlamme is a Sun Journal reporter and weekly columnist. He's been on the nighttime police beat since 1994, which is just grand because he doesn't like getting out of bed before noon. Mark is the author of eight published novels and rides a dual sport motorcycle everywhere he goes. Unless it's winter, in which case he just sulks a lot.
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PublishedApril 25, 2024
Sabattus looks to hire more police officers
“The days of patrolling with one officer for the entire town is completely unsafe,” Sabattus Police Chief Erik Baker said, “not just for the officer but the public as well.”
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PublishedApril 25, 2024
Photo: Cars crossing Longley Bridge crash, tie up traffic
This story will be updated.
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PublishedApril 24, 2024
Sabattus changes town hall hours, prepares for annual meeting
Additional police officers, a full-time fire chief and improvements to roads and infrastructure are being proposed as Sabattus prepares for its annual meeting next month.
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PublishedApril 24, 2024
Mark LaFlamme: On the veterinarian shortage and its casualties
Losing a pet is an emotional trauma no matter what the circumstances. But lose one when maybe a simple shot, pill or surgery could have saved the animal and now you can add elements of guilt and failure to that pile of grief.
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PublishedApril 21, 2024
Mark LaFlamme: What’s in YOUR junk pile?
Talk of the Town: Ah spring, when a young man’s fancy lightly turns to screaming at snowbanks.
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PublishedApril 19, 2024
Group plans gathering to mark six-month anniversary of mass shooting in Lewiston
Event will be held Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in Simard-Payne Memorial Park, 46 Beech St.
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PublishedApril 19, 2024
Attorney General: Auburn police shooting of armed man in 2021 was justified
The report clears Sgt. Steven Gosselin of any wrongdoing in the shooting of 36-year-old Joseph Arbour on Sept. 27, 2021.
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PublishedApril 19, 2024
Androscoggin County arrests: April 12-18, 2024
Lewiston • Torie Jean Gregoire, 26, of 4 Merton Blvd., on a charge of unlawful drug possession, at 3:30 a.m. Friday, April 12, on Acadia Avenue. • Nicholas Robbins, 35, of 163 Bates St., on charges of unlawful drug possession and violating conditions of release, at 3:37 a.m. Friday, April 12, at Acadia Avenue and […]
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PublishedApril 17, 2024
Police: Pedestrian Margaret ‘Peggy’ Pooler entered street against crosswalk signal
A police report listed “no contributing action” on the part of the driver who struck Margaret “Peggy” Pooler on Sabattus Street last week.
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PublishedApril 16, 2024
Mark LaFlamme: Sweet words from secret squirrel sources
If a police beat reporter doesn’t have a good fleet of secret squirrel sources, he is stuck day after day waiting for the OFFICIAL WORD to come down from city hall, the police department or some political mouthpiece.
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