No matter how big the crowd got, it still seemed like everyone there had a personal connection to the tragedy of Oct. 25, 2023.
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 inMaine, News, Obituaries
Sabattus remembers JP Normand LaPlante: ‘He was always out doing something for somebody’
LaPlante, who died last month at age 89, is being remembered as one who worked nearly nonstop for the good of his neighbors and family.
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Posted inMaine, Mark LaFlamme, News
The Legend of Tom Roth, Auburn’s drive-by shooting avenger | Column
The shooting on Pownal Road this week brings back memories of a similar case that ended quickly in 1998, Mark Laflamme writes.
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine, Mark LaFlamme
The political season and my trick-or-treating tips | Column
Writer Mark LaFlamme muses on dental picks, raisin trauma, political animals and more.
Posted inMaine, News
St. Dom’s group looking for location for new high school
Plans are in the works for a ‘fully independent private high school, in the Catholic tradition, starting in the fall of 2026.’
Posted inMaine, News
Former Lewiston police chief nominated to be Maine’s U.S. Marshal
David St. Pierre’s leadership during the mass shooting in October 2023 was listed as one reason the former chief was nominated for the position.
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine, News
Auburn haunted house attraction ‘scary in all the right ways’
Community Little Theatre’s ‘Shadows on Stage’ at the 200-year-old former school is frightening. But which of the ghosts and ghouls are real and which are part of the act?
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Deputy shoots man twice after pursuit in Turner
After crashing his car into a tree, police say a man aimed his gun at an Androscoggin County deputy who was trying to make an arrest Friday night.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
No charges filed in Lewiston shooting Friday morning
Police said the victim was not cooperating with the investigation, and would not tell them how he was shot.
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Sabattus again searching for police, fire chiefs
Friction with the Sabattus Board of Selectmen is the reason for Fire Chief H. Adam Thacker’s decision to resign, several sources say.