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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PublishedJuly 2, 2020
Fire, police officials wary about Fourth
Add a lunar eclipse, coming on Sunday, and the convergence of circumstances starts to feel like prophecy.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2020
‘Click and boom’: Fire marshal report sheds more light on Farmington explosion
A heavily-redacted report of the Sept. 16, 2019, explosion at the LEAP Inc. building that killed a firefighter and injured seven other people is consistent that there was no smell of propane.
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PublishedJune 28, 2020
Mark LaFlamme: Yeet! and other words you need to know
East bound and down So “Smokey and the Bandit” was playing at the drive-in this week, but I was working and couldn’t go. It’s a real bummer, too, because not only is the movie a blast, but afterward, you get to watch all the dorky moviegoers, amped up by the Bandit’s driving antics, trying to […]
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PublishedJune 22, 2020
Street Talk: Can I interest you in a spot of tea?
I’ve started drinking tea and it’s gotten so bad that the discovery of something like chamomile in the ingredients list can send me into a fury or an all-day depression.
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PublishedJune 21, 2020
Talk of the town: Party like it’s 2019
Parks and playgrounds reopening That’s a relief. This whole lockdown business has been particularly difficult for skateboarders. While the parks were closed, they had to resort to beating themselves with bricks, flinging themselves down stairways and running into trailer hitches to maintain the lifestyle of skinned knees, bashed elbows, pounded shins, jolted chins and the […]
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PublishedJune 21, 2020
50 Years of Katahdin Adventures
It started around Father’s Day weekend in 1951 and for the next five decades, Joe Lelanksy didn’t miss a trip, taking his pack of Boy Scouts with him for the first 25 years.
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PublishedJune 21, 2020
Mark LaFlamme: Elmer Fudd and the cancel culture
“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” ― George R.R. Martin My relief is enormous. I can’t tell you how many nights I lie awake in bed, terrified by the thought that Elmer Fudd and Yosemite […]
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PublishedJune 19, 2020
Juneteenth celebrated at Edward Little High School
The day commemorate June 19, 1865, when a Union Army general read an order in Galveston, Texas, announcing that all slaves were free.
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PublishedJune 19, 2020
Man dies in motorcycle-truck collision in Auburn
The accident occurred at Garfield and Perkins Ridge roads.
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PublishedJune 19, 2020
Lewiston police union issues statement on City Council resolution
Among other things, Lewiston police would like to equip its officers with body cameras for all sworn personnel.
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