Talk of the Town: I can’t afford to go anywhere, but my toilet light provides all the entertainment I need, by golly.
Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: A mysterious donation and odd request spur Lewiston panhandler Jess Paquette to tell her story
Street Talk: It was business as usual on a Lewiston street corner until a stranger approached Jess Paquette with a wad of cash and a strange offer.
Mark LaFlamme: Reporting to you from another dimension where baseball isn’t canceled
Talk of the Town: Baseball canceled!? How come nasty things like black flies, deer ticks and potholes never get canceled?
Mark LaFlamme: Callbacks to reporters sure to come all at once
Street Talk: For some stories, a lovable and hardworking reporter is required to contact a whole lot of people.
Mark LaFlamme: We’re going to need a bigger parking lot
Talk of the Town: The predatory pole is still stalking cars in the Walmart parking lot
Talk of the town: Blowout sale at the county lockup
Pot buffers, Buck-Twenty-Five Tree and a new sheriff’s office way too close to Auto Row. Yup, another Street Talk and probing insights on current events.
Mark LaFlamme: Objectivity is a journalist’s job
Street Talk: I know that I’m supposed to stick to objective facts in my reporting the same way I know that I’m not supposed to take that extra packet of cat food without paying for it at the grocery store.
Mark LaFlamme: Don’t forget to power wash your cat after every meal
Talk of the Town: There was a time when I was living directly above a Sam’s on Main Street in Lewiston and all I ate for three years straight was pizza and steak subs.
Mark LaFlamme: Speaker’s is closed, and Lewiston will never be the same
Street Talk: For nearly four decades, the downtown business has been tucked into its little space on Spruce Street, a buzzing beehive of a place where locals picked up hot food and groceries while also catching up on neighborhood gossip.
Mark LaFlamme: Winter’s confusing overtime rules
Talk of the Town: Taking aim at falling lizards, January, football overtime rules, the laws on cleaning cast iron pans and so much more.