As staffs adapt and get imaginative, area assisted living facilities are offering residents a variety of new diversions to counteract the isolation caused by the coronavirus.
Mark LaFlamme
Staff Writer
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.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Correction: Robert Mulready
In a story about former Lewiston City Administrator Robert Mulready that ran on page C1 in Saturday’s Sun Journal, May 16, it should have stated he was predeceased by his wife, Susan Maguire Mulready, who died in 2018. It was a reporting error.
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Posted inBethel, Business, Local & State
Court issues injunction against Sunday River Brewing reopening
Rick Savage is defying state orders to keep his Bethel restaurant closed and says he prepared to go to prison.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Former Lewiston administrator dies
Robert Mulready remembered for ‘making sure the trains ran on time.’
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State
Crews battle fast-moving brush fire in Turner
Several people reported they could see smoke from the fires from nearby towns, including Buckfield, Auburn and Greene.
Posted inMaine Crime, River Valley
West Paris man arrested after 14-mile chase
The chase ended when the suspect’s vehicle ran out of gas in Peru.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Mark LaFlamme: The singing lady, the brawler and their sobering tales
I could sit here and write all day about the intelligent, talented, supremely gifted people I’ve known who plunged into the black waters of addiction never to emerge again. Most of us could.
Posted inMark LaFlamme, Perspective
Coronavirus has turned ordinary Americans into snitches
The snitch culture is a side effect that is far more terrible than anything coronavirus could ever do to us.
Posted inbPlus, Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: Now we have to worry about murder hornets?
Murder hornets! All right, dawgs. That’s it. I’m out. If you need me, I’ll be reporting from our bureau in northern Canada, close to the Arctic, where it’s too cold for any insect, let alone a gigantic, belligerent hornet with a three-inch stinger. I mean, seriously, 2020? It’s like somebody tapped into my own personal […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Edward Little seniors to graduate June 6 at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport
The location will be the Auburn airport with a big screen, audio and livestreaming.