Jessica Vennell of Hebron was issued a summons for drunken driving.
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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Auburn couple find love in the mud
Pair bonded over Toughest Mudder event, with friendship blossoming into relationship.
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Police investigate shots fired in Lewiston
A section of Green Street was closed between East and Sylvan avenues.
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Mark LaFlamme: The five (or so) stages of a head cold
Your head feels as though some cruel sadist has stuffed a hose in each of your ears and pumped it full of pea soup.
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Hot sandwiches and band-aids: Hard times at Speaker’s Variety
There was a time when I was eating, on average, five hot ham and cheese sandwiches from Speaker’s Variety every week. For one thing, the hot ham and cheese sandwiches from Speaker’s were spectacular. I’d ask Jim or Pat or whoever was manning the ovens that day to cook them a little extra so that […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Speaker’s Variety: 83-year-old store owner attacked
LEWISTON — An 83-year-old store proprietor was back at work Friday night, nearly a week after her arm was broken during a scuffle with a shoplifter. At Speaker’s Variety on Spruce Street, Patricia Speaker was behind the counter, working alone in the store she’s run for nearly four decades. “I’m sorry I can’t make any hot […]
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The rise and fall of George Stanley’s empire of stuff | Mark LaFlamme
You can call Stanley a lot of things — eccentric, strange, more trouble than a house full of monkeys — but stupid isn’t one of them, Mark LaFlamme writes.
Posted inAndroscoggin County
George Stanley assesses the devastation after bogus Craigslist ad prompted a frenzy of looting
GREENE — At George Stanley’s place on Route 202, there are almost too many doors to count: garage doors, doors made of fencing and doors constructed of plywood and nails. On Thursday, working in the driving rain, the 71-year-old Stanley moved from one door to the next, assessing the damage and the losses. “This […]
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Bogus Craigslist ad leads people to loot Greene property
“Free!” the Craigslist ad read. “Come one, come all, everything on the lot is free!” So enthusiastic was the advertisement it used the word “free” five times in the headline alone. The problem: The ad was bogus. The lot in question, a sprawling building surrounded by a mad jumble of free-floating items on Route […]
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Staying warm: What’s in YOUR underwear drawer?
I have to confess: Last weekend, I spent a considerable chunk of time running around in a pair of my wife’s nylons. Pantyhose, that is. I squeezed into those suckers with grim determination, like a man trying to shove 10 pounds of raw meat into a 5-gallon bag. Worth it? Hardly. All day, I was […]