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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PublishedMay 1, 2019
Street Talk: The little girl, the old woman and the ramp: Good deeds in a weary world
It was a few weeks before Christmas and the parade of people hauling money into the newsroom showed no sign of slowing. One by one they came with envelopes stuffed with cash, coffee cans full of coins or crumpled dollar bills tugged from pockets on the spot. Some gave big, some gave small, most gave […]
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PublishedApril 28, 2019
Mark LaFlamme: Remember to phrase your complaints in the form of questions!
Swindled! I was cruising around the city the other day and couldn’t help but notice that Dirigo Federal Credit Union on Main Street is gone. My money! You cads! Lure me in with promises of generous interest rates for my big Sun Journal bucks and then flee in the middle of the night with my […]
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PublishedApril 27, 2019
Three Massachusetts residents charged in Newry break-in
Police say the three were using a stolen car and have committed home and business burglaries across three states.
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PublishedApril 26, 2019
‘She loves her Grammy:’ Girl saving money for ramp
Forget makeup and iTunes. 12-year-old wants a ramp for her great-grandmother.
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PublishedApril 26, 2019
Pickup crashes into tree in Sabattus
The driver walked away from his mangled vehicle, but he was taken to the hospital to be examined.
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PublishedApril 24, 2019
Three detained after police chase, crash in Lewiston
Three people are taken into police custody after a police chase and car crash in the parking lot of a Sabattus Street business Wednesday night.
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PublishedApril 24, 2019
‘I Am Lewiston:’ Tree Street Youth puts on a show
More than a dozen individual and group performances highlighted the show Wednesday, which serves as a fundraiser and community-building event.
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PublishedApril 23, 2019
Mark LaFlamme: Jeepers! Mysteries of Cooper Spring
Every trip to the spring – where the water is crisp and clean and sparkling with fairy dust – turns into some kind of Scooby Doo adventure.
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PublishedApril 21, 2019
Mark LaFlamme: A Song of Slush and Mud
All’s well that ends well 9:15 p.m. Wednesday night, a woman reported she had received a notice from Publishers Clearing House that she’d hit the jackpot and she suspected it might be a scam. Police went over and looked into it. The Publishers Clearing House thing was bogus, but it turns out the woman was […]
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PublishedApril 19, 2019
Missing man found in Bridgton
Ralph Knight, 79, was suffering from advanced stages of hypothermia, according to the Maine Warden Service.
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