Wardens on Thursday were seeking information about a woman who took a juvenile raccoon into an Auburn pet store, where the animal was said to have been kissed by a few in the store.
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 inAndroscoggin County
Sabattus approves police, fire, public works budgets while declining other items
While approving most department budgets, voters declined to pay for an excavator for public works and agreed to shell out for one police cruiser instead of three.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: Sure is quiet around here but don’t you dare say that around police
Street Talk: Police are a superstitious lot and as far as they’re concerned, any utterance of the Q-word is bound to cause mayhem and ought to be a felony.
Posted inbPlus, Lewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: Plant your corn early
Talk of the Town: Good times for yard drinking, bees, meat lovers and Sheriff Eric Samson.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Sabattus facing ‘tough decisions’ at annual meeting Wednesday
Town residents will be asked to weigh in on 40 articles, covering everything from police, fire and public works to computers and road improvements.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Woman dies after suffering burns from Auburn campfire
Jessica Durant died at Maine Medical Center in Portland from the burns she suffered when she fell into a fire May 6 in the woods near Moulton Park.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Burglary suspects arrested for 3rd time
The couple had originally been arrested in late April, accused in a string of burglaries that stretched across Androscoggin County and possibly beyond.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Sheds go up in flames; man burned in Lewiston
The man who lives in the home suffered burns and was treated at the scene.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, News
‘A truly divided town’: Sabattus residents discuss ‘no confidence’ letter
About five dozen residents and a handful of news reporters turned out to hear discussion of a document expressing a loss of confidence in Town Manager Timothy Kane at a regular town meeting.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: A former ‘putz’s’ graduation lament
Street Talk: After graduation, I spent eight or nine years just wandering in kind of a shabby, hedonistic daze.