With more homeless people coming to Lewiston seemingly by the day, the number of complaints to police is also rising.
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 inFranklin, News
Video: Franklin County vexed by storms, flooding
Flooding was reported all over the region as a storm passed through the area, dumping as much as 2-inches of rain per hour in some areas.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
Kitchen fire doused in Lewiston
Firefighters were called out just after 7 a.m. to a multi-family building at 274 Blake St.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: Suicide’s unwitting players have to live with the trauma
Street Talk: I’ll never understand why a person would want to end his own suffering by inflicting suffering upon another.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: It’s not so much what you said but the way you said it
Talk of the Town: Rain. Breezy tussles. Higher math. Jilted lovers. What a week. How about a do-over?
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
Lewiston police question juvenile in hit and run
Thursday night, first responders found the victim lying unconscious in the street but no sign of the vehicle that had struck him.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: Do you want to be an award-winning reporter? Write this down.
Street Talk: One-on-one interviews may not be the meat and potatoes of a news story, but they are definitely the carrots and peas.
Posted inbPlus, Lewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: The pod people are among us
Talk of the town: Public confessions, zombifying flowers, only eating after dark and so much more.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State, News
Opioid crisis: 140 residential treatment beds to be added across the state
The governor’s plan calls for 12 of those beds to be made available in Auburn.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Woman seriously injured when utility pole crashes through windshield in Lewiston
The driver was taken by a LifeFlight of Maine helicopter to Maine Medical Center in Portland, where she was listed in serious condition Thursday.