Lord of the ring. The crispy, delicious ring. You know what’s good? Humpty Dumpty Sour Cream & Onion Rings. They’re like Funyuns! Only, they’re not Funyuns! It’s just madness! Delicious, crunchy madness! Grub-a-dub So a nice lady called me up earlier in the week and reported that grubs were destroying her lawn. “I’ve got grubs,” […]
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.
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Memorial Day: What’s Happening?
Memorial Day events in the area: Lewiston-Auburn: Monday 10 a.m., parade, veterans ceremony and more Billed as the largest Memorial Day parade in Maine, more than 80 units will march through Auburn to Veterans Memorial Park in Lewiston for the Twin Cities’ annual Memorial Day ceremony. The parade starts at 10 a.m. on Mill Street […]
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Lewiston: Fatal motorcycle crash investigated
Police say speed was a likely factor in the crash.
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‘Nice to see her outside again:’ Ramp built for ailing Poland woman
POLAND — It is done. The ramp is done. A few weeks ago, what a 12-year-old girl named Lily wanted more than anything in the world was a simple ramp so her ailing great-grandmother could get in and out of her house. This week, Lily got to see her dream all the way through as […]
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Patio chair swiped from cafe under Auburn Public Library
AUBURN — The owners of the Cibo cafe figured they were doing a nice thing by putting chairs outside so diners could enjoy the spring weather. Nope. As the cafe handled a breakfast rush of customers Wednesday morning, someone made off with one of the chairs roughly five hours after it had been placed outside. […]
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Local entrepreneurs reach Top Gun finals
PORTLAND — A trio of Lewiston-area entrepreneurs made it to the final round of the Top Gun business pitch-off in Portland on Thursday night but failed to take home the top prize. My Waffle, a waffle-oriented kitchen-on-wheels created by a pair of local men, and i-Tell Alert, technology from a Winthrop occupational therapist, lost to […]
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Auburn schools: Superintendent Grondin recognized by peers
AUBURN — School Superintendent Katy Grondin has been selected to receive this year’s Outstanding Leadership Award from the Maine School Superintendents Association. Grondin, an Auburn school teacher since 1988 and superintendent since 2011, will receive the award next month at the association’s annual conference June 24 at the Atlantic Oceanside Hotel & Event in Bar […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Did you hear what happened on Nichols Street?
While I may not be very bright, give me 10 years, a guy with a gun, some barking dogs and Amazon, and I’ll find a way around just about any problem.
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Mark LaFlamme: Fiddleheads and scorpions, oh my!
‘Could L-A be future home to a scorpion farm?’ That’s a real headline from Wednesday’s paper. What, are you people drunk? It’s like you’ve never seen a B horror movie starring William Shatner and Roddy McDowall. Put your little scorpion farm next to the wrong mill or toxic waste dump and BAM! Next thing you […]
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Maryland man admits to credit card fraud
Bryan Boley faces more than 30 years in prison and nearly a million dollars in fines when he is sentenced later in the year.