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 […]
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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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.
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CMCC graduation: ‘There isn’t anything you can’t accomplish’
Hundreds collected their diplomas Thursday night at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee as CMCC graduated its 55th class.
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Mark LaFlamme: Trying to write the origin story of my migraines
It was just another morning in homeroom during my junior year of high school when the words scrawled on the chalk board went up in flames. One minute they were just words scribbled in chalk and the next they were completely ablaze; a long row of meaningless words that sizzled and danced in flames […]
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Mark LaFlamme: You and what army?
Flush with pride Had quite the good time over the weekend cruising around and examining the various mounds of trash put out for Auburn’s spring cleanup, or whatever they’re calling it now. You can tell a lot about a society by the things they throw out, you know. This year, I saw toilets. Lots of […]
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Maine Oxy employees file suit against owner
Lawsuit claims company owner Daniel Guerin harassed and threatened employees to get them to sell back their stock shares.
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Mark LaFlamme: Prom night terror
I was cruising around the Bates College campus on my motorcycle when the invasion got underway. One minute is was just a quiet Saturday on campus and the next it was outright madness. Young women were roaming lawns and sidewalks in flowing gowns and extravagant hairdos. Boys were sauntering in tuxedos all debonair, their hair […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Quit staring at my head
Ocean’s 19 Nobody will ever do a big action movie about the kind of bank robbers we get here in Lewiston. Seriously, when is the last time a stickup man WASN’T captured within 15 minutes or so? I always wonder how those conversations go in prison: “I got six blocks away before they got me. […]