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 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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PublishedApril 16, 2024
Struck by an SUV last week in Lewiston, Peggy Pooler dies of her injuries
The woman had suffered multiple injuries in the Wednesday night crash near the intersection of Sabattus and College streets.
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PublishedApril 14, 2024
Mark LaFlamme: I think I might have been raptured, but in the wrong direction
Talk of the Town: Don’t bother me, can’t you see I’m planning for my next TOTALITY!
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PublishedApril 14, 2024
High on Maine: A look at the state’s 12 tallest buildings
Lewiston has three of the state’s tallest buildings, with its tallest — the Agora Grand Event Center — just 15 feet short of the #1 ranking.
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