Mark LaFlamme is a Sun Journal news reporter and columnist and the author of several works of fiction. He sleeps until noon each day and regrets nothing. Mark has several exciting hobbies, all of which are none of your business. Seriously, you don’t want to know. This page is a collection of his Street Talk and Talk of the Town columns.
Street Talk
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April 172018 was full of sad news. Give me a werewolf, an Elvis Presley sighting or anything featuring the term "alien baby" and we'll have a summer of news without any heartache.
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April 10I had been sitting calmly on that rock when it occurred to me that maybe the fish would be more apt to bite if I climbed a tree and cast from a high branch. I mean, that's straight physics right there.
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In Berwick, Lisa would sit on the hammock and wait for nature to entertain her. In Lewiston, it's very much the same, although the nature of the wildlife has changed.
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March 13Here were teams of firefighters doing things that most of us would not do on our bravest days.
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March 7
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February 27On those nights of really big news, you waited around for the paper to come sliding off the press, and to hell with dinner or whatever you'd had planned that night.
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February 20Getting ready to do something truly stupid with a roof rake and a saucer sled.
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February 13Your head feels as though some cruel sadist has stuffed a hose in each of your ears and pumped it full of pea soup.
Talk of the Town
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March 17
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March 10
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This, that and the other thing
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February 10
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January 21
