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PublishedDecember 30, 2018
Talk of the town: Cash me outside, yo
The diet begins I am saddened to report that Talk of the Town has been placed on a pretty strict length limit of about 425 words. What that means for you, the clearly deranged reader, is that I will no longer be in here going on and on and on about nothing at all. Nope. […]
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PublishedDecember 30, 2018
Top 10: Recapping the top local stories of 2018
Untimely deaths, racial tension, a massive pot raid, a controversial lawyer and restaurants closing and opening were among the top local news stories of the year.
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PublishedDecember 29, 2018
Lewiston police track down suspect after crash
LEWISTON – Police tracked down a suspect in the woods off Pond Road early Saturday after a vehicle was reported to have crashed into a house around midnight. Police used a tracking dog to zero in on the suspect who was last seen running into the woods near the powerlines after crashing the car near […]
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PublishedDecember 27, 2018
Car snaps pole, takes down wires in Lewiston
LEWISTON — A car slammed into a utility pole on Lincoln Street late Thursday, snapping the pole and bringing lines down onto the street. Police, fire and rescue crews responded to the area, near the boat launch, at about 9:15 p.m., after the pole was reported down and the car that hit it was said to be […]
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PublishedDecember 27, 2018
Lewiston brawl injures 5 people Thursday night
LEWISTON — At least five people were hurt Thursday night in a brawl on Birch Street following a candlelight vigil downtown. Police said the injured suffered mostly bumps, cuts and a possible broken nose in the 8:45 p.m. scrap at Birch and Blake streets. Witnesses reported seeing large groups of people, some of them armed […]
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PublishedDecember 27, 2018
Former Lewiston woman scores thousands on 'Millionaire'
Lisa Karahalios did not come away from the game show circuit a millionaire. She did, however, walk out $20,000 richer. The 54-year-old former Lewiston woman appeared Wednesday and Thursday on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” And a few locals were cheering her on. It is not every day a local appears on one of […]
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PublishedDecember 27, 2018
Lewiston police find body of armed man after search in woods
LEWISTON — Police scoured the woods next to the Maine Turnpike on Thursday afternoon after a despondent man ran into the woods there armed with a handgun. More than a dozen officers searched for more than an hour before the 59-year-old man was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot. During the tense hour-and-a-half of searching, […]
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PublishedDecember 25, 2018
Mark LaFlamme: It was the night before Christmas and I got nothing
So, I was desperate for column ideas on a Monday afternoon that also happened to be Christmas Eve. No brainer, right? I’d just head to the stores, behold the eye-bulging madness of last-minute shopping and let that column write itself. Maybe it would be a hair-pulling, eye-gouging brawl in the toy aisle over the last […]
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PublishedDecember 23, 2018
Mark LaFlamme: Yule be glad I gave you these gift ideas
This gift stinks So on Tuesday – just one week before Christmas – a conveniently timed windstorm sent trash cans bouncing merrily across various neighborhoods in Lewiston and Auburn. For the frantic last minute shopper, this was like a gift from heaven. Merry Christmas, Mom! Here’s a slightly dented Brute brand garbage can with only […]
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PublishedDecember 21, 2018
Remembering the homeless on the longest night of the year
LEWISTON — It was raining hard and the wind was whipping on the longest night of 2018, but 12-year-old Cadence Carson didn’t complain once during the sloppy walk across the downtown. She didn’t complain because her mother had taught her that there are homeless people on the streets who have to endure this kind of […]
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