We are living in the kind of economic state that could allow a person to take giant leaps in status by simply showing up. And they’ll pay you just to be there!
Mark LaFlamme
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Talk of the Town: Trade you a gross green pepper for a tasty sausage
It’s happening again It’s my fault. I let my guard down. Once the chocolate graham crackers began to appear on store shelves again, I thought the crisis was over. But it’s not. Went to the Hannaford the other day to get a couple boxes and there they were, gone! Completely depleted! The regular, boring graham […]
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Street Talk: Naked people everywhere and doing weird things
By the time I was six months on the job here, I was already bewildered by how many people were running around naked on the downtown residential streets.
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Mark LaFlamme: Put your shirt on, Shatner
Talk of the Town is inspired by a reporter who was shirtless for some reason.
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Street Talk: Even pilgrims made the police log
I have never had any sort of personal link to the logs, other than the philosophical demand that if you’re going to run the arrests, you have to do it fairly.
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Talk of the town: If my cat calls, tell her I’m not here
The Great Leaning Pole of Walmart OK, what IS the deal with that leaning pole in the Walmart parking lot? Every day there’s a new picture of somebody’s car either tipped over on its side or just leaning comically because somebody drove into that pole again and at appreciable speed. Either we’ve got some strange […]
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Street Talk: Kimberly Moreau and the cruel unknown
Kimberly Moreau deserves rest. Her family deserves it even more.
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Talk of the town: Dirty pillows and purloined potato sticks
Wicked excited about baseball I was driving by the baseball field near the Colisee in Lewiston the other day when I noticed, with great glee, that the field was actually abuzz with ballplayers. I mean, dozens of them were out there chasing down flies, fielding grounders, warming up the pitcher or just getting stretched out […]
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Street Talk: Remembering Randy Whitehouse, a friend
Randy Whitehouse, my friend and confidant of a quarter-century, is gone.
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There once was a woodpecker from Nantucket
The Talk of the Town influenced by migraines, woodpeckers and haikus.