On 7th Street in Auburn, neighbors described dirty and dangerous conditions with nearly three dozen cats living in a home.
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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Dealing with stray cats: Advice from the experts
Katie Lisnik, executive director of the Greater Androscoggin Humane Society in Lewiston, offers tips on dealing with found cats.
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Mark LaFlamme: Bugs everywhere. And I mean EVERYWHERE.
Talk of the Town: They’ve got us vacuuming, cursing, drinking them, dodging our wives and twerking. Powerful little suckers really.
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Mark LaFlamme: Today’s bug mystery: Giant mosquito? Or Maine mutant?
Street Talk: And so instead of dealing with shootings and car wrecks and tales of pain and woe at the end of the week, I spent my time on the tail of a menacing creature of unknown origin.
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Mark LaFlamme: I bless the rains down in Leeeewiston
Talk of the town: All rants, diatribes and tirades … well, except for that tangle of lady underthings.
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Cribbage glory: Dreaming of the elusive 29 hand
The chances of scoring a 29 in cribbage are low. Like, not-in-your-lifetime low. That’s what makes it so desirable.
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Why is cribbage so big? There’s friendly competition. There’s socializing. There’s nostalgia.
The centuries-old game appears to be very popular in the area for a whole lot of reasons including the memories it evokes. The trash talk is a bonus.
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Mark LaFlamme: Prime rib in pill form, please
Street Talk: We’ve got supercomputers small enough to tuck into our pockets. We’ve got bug-looking cameras that fly around in the sky and we’ve got artificial intelligence writing term papers and composing music. All of that and yet no food in pill form to eliminate the need for inconvenient eating.
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Mark LaFlamme: More on Lewiston’s Divan of Mystery
Talk of the Town: I already had a nice little island picked out. The lottery’s rigged.
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Mark LaFlamme: The rock, the rattle and other works of Lewiston art
Street Talk: It remains to be seen if the people of Lewiston will ever grow to love “the rock” in Kennedy Park like they’ve grown to love the zebra on the Canal Street parking garage.