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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PublishedJanuary 1, 2020
Children make the world look pretty cool
The kid came out of nowhere. One moment I was slumped in a post-Christmas semi-doze at my newsroom desk and the next, I was wide awake and scrambling to figure out where the pint-sized ninja boy had come from. “What’s your name?” the tow-headed lad asked me. “Mark. What’s yours?” The boy told he his […]
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PublishedDecember 30, 2019
Sabattus: New chiefs take over at Fire, Police departments
By the end of the year, new Sabattus Police Chief Sheila Wetherbee had already racked up an impressive list of accomplishments.
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PublishedDecember 29, 2019
Talk of the town: Christmas is over, pass the Nyquil
There once was a man from Kent So, last week I shared with you all a weird little poem I dreamed up while I was stoned on Nyquil or something. Since that little snippet ran in the paper, I think that means I’m a published poet now! I suppose I’ll have to start wearing an […]
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PublishedDecember 28, 2019
Tragedies, new schools, surprise resignations and a town revolt: The top local stories of 2019
History was made, political battles turned ugly and some people were booted out of positions they thought they held fast. However you feel about 2019 in our little corner of the world, it probably didn’t bore you.
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PublishedDecember 27, 2019
Lewiston police investigating storage unit break-ins
Thieves have been cutting locks and breaking into storage units across Lewiston.
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PublishedDecember 27, 2019
Strong man charged with arson after kitchen catches fire
STRONG — A local man was arrested on suspicion of arson early Friday after reporting a house fire on Lambert Hill Road. At about 1:30 a.m., Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy Alan Elmes went to the home after a resident reported a fire in his kitchen. The flames were extinguished by the fire department, and the […]
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PublishedDecember 25, 2019
Time travel and the Bluelight Special
The last thing I ever bought from Kmart was a Route 66 hooded sweatshirt, fleece lined everywhere, including the sleeves.The Cadillac of hoodies, the Route 66. And it would have to be just that special to lure me into Auburn’s Kmart, a place I had generally avoided for years.It is not that I did not […]
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PublishedDecember 22, 2019
Aren’t we all just a Barrel of Monkeys?
Get out of my head, Edward Gorey So, I’ve been having a whole lot of trouble sleeping lately. I ALMOST get there, but then unsettling thoughts come plowing into my head like a freight train out of hell and I’m wide awake again. The other night, in that gray place between awake and asleep, my […]
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PublishedDecember 20, 2019
‘Mazel tov!” Temple Shalom celebrates Chanukah
There was music, a catered dinner, crafts, games, latkes and jelly donuts for the annual Festival of Lights.
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PublishedDecember 19, 2019
‘A nice challenge:’ Writers, artists, students team up for LHS diversity exhibit
Organizers say they’d like to make “Consider This: Lewiston” a yearly event.
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