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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PublishedAugust 15, 2019
Fowl business: Lewiston chicken owners confused about ordinance
A little-known 30,000-square-foot requirement has residents in the city wasting money on coops, and having to lay off their birds.
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PublishedAugust 15, 2019
Lewiston’s ‘Chicken Cheat Sheet’
The keeping of up to six female chickens is permitted in the rural-agricultural, low density residential, suburban residential, medium density residential and the neighborhood conservation “A” districts on lots of no less than 30,000 square feet developed with single family detached dwellings including mobile homes on individual lots. Check the zoning of your property at […]
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PublishedAugust 15, 2019
Street Talk: The kiss heard ’round Facebook
Photographer Russ Dillingham originally didn’t intend to publish the kiss photo. I encouraged him to do so and I regret nothing. The photo, of a handcuffed lass kissing a bearded man while a pair of police officers patiently wait, is a perfect snapshot of hardscrabble life in downtown Lewiston. She’s a woman in love who […]
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PublishedAugust 15, 2019
Maryland woman, 75, drowns after canoe tips over in Bethel
The victim got trapped under the canoe after it flipped with her husband and daughter also tossed into the Androscoggin River.
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PublishedAugust 14, 2019
Photo: Turner motorcyclist hurt in Auburn crash
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PublishedAugust 14, 2019
Reporter query: Need a relative to knock it off on Facebook?
We feel your pain. And we’d like your stories.
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PublishedAugust 11, 2019
‘A jam-packed weekend’: Balloon festival days away
AUBURN — For weeks, organizers of the 2019 Great Falls Balloon Festival have been updating their Facebook page at least once a day. “Single digits!” they wrote last week when the countdown to the festival got to nine days. “Eight days!” they wrote a day later, adding a photo of a balloon hovering over the […]
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PublishedAugust 11, 2019
Mark LaFlamme: If you’re looking for a sign, slow down
Encouraging I’ve noticed a lot of those “Your Speed” signs on streets in both Lewiston and Auburn lately. You drive by and if you’re going one MPH or more over the limit, a message will flash: “Slow down!” I’ve been by several of these and I’ve experimented. I’ve noticed that if you’re going the speed […]
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PublishedAugust 8, 2019
Garbage truck plows into five vehicles in Farmington
FARMINGTON — Six vehicles were demolished, but no serious injuries were reported, when a garbage truck slammed into five vehicles Thursday morning on Fairbanks Road. Police said the garbage truck, owned by Archie’s Disposal and driven by Thomas Davenport, 50, of Canton slammed into the back of a Ford F-250 pickup truck while both vehicles […]
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PublishedAugust 8, 2019
Former Sabattus woman settles lawsuit in prisoner transport case
LEWISTON — Nearly three years after Meghan Quinn was forced to kneel in a blood- and urine-soaked cage during a five-day extradition from Florida to Maine, her lawsuit against a Florida company, U.S. Prisoner Transport, has been settled. Details of the settlement are confidential. Quinn, 36, said Thursday she was required to sign a disclosure […]
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