Mark LaFlamme

Sun Journal

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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Published
August 23, 2020

The Great Divide: Farmers’ Almanac hits the shelves

When you get right down to it, the world may need the magazine’s advice now more than ever.
Published
August 23, 2020

Face Time: Mike Haggett and Pine Tree Weather

Haggett, who used to manage community relations for the Lewiston Maineiacs, is the founder of Western Maine Weather, which later became Pine Tree Weather
Published
August 23, 2020

Close the rings! Wearable tech is catching on

Fitness is just one benefit. Some people use it for life-saving heart monitoring, while one local man credits it for turning his life around.
Published
August 23, 2020

Close the rings! Wearable tech is catching on

Fitness is just one benefit. Some people use it for life-saving heart monitoring, while one local man credits it for turning his life around.
Published
August 21, 2020

‘Everything will be OK’: Student unleashes stealth sticky notes at UMF

Freshmen restricted to dorm rooms given messages of affirmation.
Published
August 21, 2020

Lewiston woman killed in her driveway

Police were in a standoff at a home on Farwell Street while looking for 26-year old Jaquile Coleman, who is a suspect in the Friday afternoon shooting.
Published
August 20, 2020

Edward Little High School grad to donate laptops to immigrants

The Chromebooks will be distributed at 4 p.m. Friday.
Published
August 19, 2020

Shot fired on Center Street in Auburn

Police searching for gunman; no injuries reported
Published
August 17, 2020

‘Hope’ and ‘Love:’ Art or blight?

Fray over spraypainted words on Cowan Mill an online gutter fight.
Published
August 16, 2020

Mark LaFlamme: Attack of the hybrids

Have you seen this motorcycle? Sometime overnight Tuesday, fiends dragged off a sweet, dark gray Yamaha R1 from a home on Green Street in Lewiston and were last seen heading toward the downtown with the bike in tow. Thieves in general are despicable creatures, but a scoundrel who steals a man’s motorcycle should be treated […]

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