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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September 21Street Talk: Words like 'overturned' and 'into the building' and 'upside down' were used.
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Street Talk: The boy never spoke a coherent word again in his lifetime, as the story goes. When he spoke at all, he spoke in terrified gibberish of things no sane human mind could comprehend.
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August 16Street Talk: By the time I pulled myself up and scraped the potting soil out of my ears, the bat was in the kitchen, flitting about in those crazy parabolas bats like so much.
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There's no gray area here. Either Dennis Dechaine is a monster who deserves every bit of the suffering he's endured, or he's a man in Hell, tied to one of the region's worst atrocities.
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Street Talk: All my life I've been down here waiting for Mork to appear and yet the only UFO experiences I have are vicarious.
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July 26If you spend a lot of time in downtown Lewiston you don't require any kind of scientific study or earnest crunching of the numbers to reveal what your gut is screaming at you like a klaxon: tread carefully, brother. There is danger afoot.
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July 12Mark LaFlamme finds driving past Lewiston businesses looks a lot different than it used to.
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July 1Street Talk: In this age of social media, online public records, local Facebook groups and the phenomenon of "mutual friend" connections, your average Joe and Jane have become impressively proficient at sleuthing
Talk of the Town
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September 18Talk of the town: Riverside buffiness, tag-less T-shirts, mustard memos and more.
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When it comes to gauging fluctuations in the economy and preparing for potential recessions, I use the price of aerosol cheese to dictate my level of panic. Well, it's freak-out time, friends.
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Talk of the Town: Target is almost here. I can hardly wait to see if Target's iconic red orbs are going to get the same treatment Walmart's maligned yellow poles get.
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Talk of the Town: This would finally fulfill a lifelong dream of mine in which I get to be the dude who runs along the beach yelling 'Shark! Get out of the water!' just like Chief Brody himself on the big day.
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Talk of the Town: Once you pay to get into Range Pond State Park, you might as well enjoy some beach time even if you're wearing long pants on a sweltering hot day and being called 'Senor Pantalones' by other beachgoers.
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Talk of the Town: Tricky words, ornery pedestrians and back at Hobby Lobby for . . . never you mind.
