GIANT RODENTS INVADE! Not really, but when I first glanced at the story about a giant hamster wheel floating up on a beach in Florida, I thought there was an actual hamster inside and Jack, that thing would have been huuuuge! It’s a little disappointing to discover that it was just some dude huffing along […]
Mark LaFlamme
Staff Writer
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.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Lewiston school superintendent makes recommendations for coming school year
Jake Langlais’ proposal calls for a return to in-person classes and no remote learning for quarantine situations.
advertisement
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Truck rolls on Sabattus Street in Lewiston
One truck came to rest on its side in the yard of an apartment house at 641 Sabattus St.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Street Talk: When newspapers were king
Reading news through a digital medium is long on efficiency but short on charm. There’s a certain just-the-facts discipline about it that discourages dawdling when dawdling was always the kind of fun of reading a newspaper.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Someone must have started a business hauling naked guys around Lewiston
Talk of the Town: Here and gone — naked guys, potato sticks and plastic shopping bags.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
No charges after child struck by car on Knox Street
Police said the 4-year-old girl ran into the road as a car was being driven by.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Child struck by car in Lewiston
The girl was taken by ambulance to Central Maine Medical Center where she was being examined later Thursday.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime
Lewiston police investigate crash, fires and other incidents at The Colisee
Last week, police and fire crews were sent to the parking lot for a report of a car fire.
Posted inMark LaFlamme
Street Talk: Arguing with a fool
I’m pretty sure that if I kept track, I’d find that I talk to myself way, WAY more than I talk to others.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Five years after the death of his daughter, Lisbon man receives her ring in the mail
Conrad Davis of Lisbon found comfort in receiving the ring, other coincidences about his daughter.