Talk of the Town ponders the beasts of Aroostook County, the revealing nature of Daylight Saving Time, the new 911 tone and so much more.
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Mark LaFlamme: Lost ladies find their way home
Street Talk: Maybe someone will write a folk song about Maine’s lost ladies. Someone should.
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Mark LaFlamme: Menacing mollusks and mermaids in the muck
Talk of the Town goes where no unicorn, cat lady or canal mermaid have gone before. So clam down!
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Mark LaFlamme: 21 years of blither
Street Talk: It’s downright strange to me that a person sitting next to me, drinking legally at a bar, could have been born the year I started writing Street Talk.
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Mark LaFlamme: On UFOs, wilted roses and subterranean cannibal spiders
Lewiston relining 7 miles of sewer lines Welp, I hope these sewer workers have their affairs in order because we all know how this kind of thing goes in the movies. Once they’re down in those dank, pitch-black Hell portals they’re going to encounter a nest of man-eating spiders the size of pianos, a shuffling […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Abused feline has found a home, wanted in another
Street Talk: For the cat named Harlow, the long road to recovery was just beginning. But for the young woman who rescued the animal, all that awaited was frustration.
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Mark LaFlamme: T-Rex vs. spy balloon vs. Walmart pole vs. Omar from ‘The Wire’
It’s like a B-movie marathon all up in here as Talk of the Town prepares for battle.
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Mark LaFlamme: Victims are awaiting justice and finding it lacking
For more than a year, Tyrone Fulgham anxiously waited to see punishment doled out to the man who took his leg. When the day of sentencing finally arrived, it was not very satisfying. Mason Perez, the 29-year-old whose reckless driving cost Fulgham most of his right leg in September 2021, would serve no jail time. […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus and all that noise
Talk of the Town: Columnist has discovered the floor-washing robot at the Oxford Walmart, and its life may never be the same.
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Mark LaFlamme: Alcohol: The forgotten drug epidemic
Street Talk: Where a substance like fentanyl is apt to drop a man where he stands in his dreamy nod, liquor takes its time; a cat toying with a field mouse before delivering the fatal blow.