Talk of the Town: What’s a cop reporter to do now that the police scanner has gone quiet?
Mark LaFlamme
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Street Talk: Now, doggonit, stop that cussing
Confessions of a habitual swearer who also happens to be interested in personal growth.
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Talk of the Town: Calm down, son. You’re having balloon flashbacks.
Things are looking up! Everywhere I go, I see people on the street coming to complete stops, pointing at the sky and making all sort of noises that are supposed to denote, I think, awe and wonder. Then they get out their phones and start snapping photos from weird angles. I look up there and […]
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Old Orchard Beach then and now
Street Talk: Old Orchard Beach is a sandy Xanadu where the glorious ocean meets $4 flip-flops, lip-scalding pier fries and some chubby kid vomiting all over the Matterhorn.
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Missing bikes, beavers and giant Dunkin’ cups: Mark LaFlamme muses
Talk of the Town: I don’t want to alarm and/or titillate anyone, but there have been reports of a GIGANTIC Dunkin’ Donuts cup motoring along local streets.
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Street Talk: Stop looking at my beard
The longer my beard grew, the more it seemed to antagonize people and I couldn’t go anywhere without enduring one snide remark or another.
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These letters ain’t sealed with kisses
Talk of the Town: Mark LaFlamme finally checks his mail box.
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Street Talk: How to assemble a posse and retrieve a stolen bike
Jess Paquette, a local busker, had her bike and ukulele stolen. After a few posts on Facebook, the community rallied to find the missing stuff—and succeeded, mostly.
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Talk of the town: Naked trees and fuzzy wieners
GIANT RODENTS INVADE! Not really, but when I first glanced at the story about a giant hamster wheel floating up on a beach in Florida, I thought there was an actual hamster inside and Jack, that thing would have been huuuuge! It’s a little disappointing to discover that it was just some dude huffing along […]
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Street Talk: When newspapers were king
Reading news through a digital medium is long on efficiency but short on charm. There’s a certain just-the-facts discipline about it that discourages dawdling when dawdling was always the kind of fun of reading a newspaper.