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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PublishedSeptember 23, 2020
MSAD 52 closes Turner schools for a week after 4 COVID-19 cases
According to the district, Turner Primary School, Turner Elementary School, Tripp Middle School and Leavitt Area High School will go to fully remote teaching and learning for the next week.
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PublishedSeptember 22, 2020
Mark LaFlamme: The truck makes the man
I’m pretty sure that simply by thinking real hard, I could grow a mustache on the spot.
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PublishedSeptember 20, 2020
Mark LaFlamme: Gourd fondling enthusiasts rejoice!
Thinking before you speak ain’t no fun You know what else stinks about this work-from-home business? The constant threat of private moments being shared through Zoom or whatever god-forsaken technology presently has its giant eyes and ears open in your house. My wife, working from her home office in the living room, is always engaged […]
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PublishedSeptember 18, 2020
Crews battle woods fire in Buckfield
About 2.5 acres burned in a fire contained around 6 a.m.
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PublishedSeptember 17, 2020
Feds file civil action against Maine Oxy
The civil action alleges that three men schemed to conceal the true value of the stock shares so that participants in the employee stock plan received only a fraction of the value of those shares.
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PublishedSeptember 17, 2020
Randolph man charged with home repair fraud
Jason Alec Pratt, 43, is accused of scamming an elderly Sabattus woman by accepting a down payment for home repairs he never performed.
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PublishedSeptember 16, 2020
Breakfast be praised! The Holy Donut is coming to Auburn
No date has been set for the doughnut shop to open on Minot Avenue.
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PublishedSeptember 15, 2020
Mark LaFlamme: Yes, professor, objectivity is still a thing
Objectivity, according to Professor Emeritus Ted Glasser of Stanford University, is just too cumbersome, and it gets in the way of what a journalist should consider his or her REAL job: activism
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PublishedSeptember 13, 2020
Mark LaFlamme: ‘Mostly alcohol’ explains so much
The Staggering Man “Six Lewiston stores will square off in front of the Maine Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations,” according to a business story on Wednesday, “each making a case at a Zoom’d public hearing that it should receive the lone agency liquor store license up for grabs.” Now, tell me this doesn’t […]
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2020
Lewiston man indicted in fatal Auburn stabbing
AUBURN — A Lewiston man was indicted by a grand jury Thursday, accused of stabbing another man to death near McDonald’s on Center Street in July. Trai Larue, 22, of 146 Pierce St., was indicted by the Androscoggin County grand jury on a charge of murder in the death of Roger “Jordan” Cornell, 21, a […]
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