Street Talk: It remains to be seen if the people of Lewiston will ever grow to love “the rock” in Kennedy Park like they’ve grown to love the zebra on the Canal Street parking garage.
Mark LaFlamme
‘Somebody’s got to win’: Big jackpots, bigger dreams tempt local lottery lovers against all odds
The good news: Maine is the seventh luckiest state in the nation with five lottery jackpot winners receiving a total combined jackpot of $1.2 billion. The bad news: The odds of winning the big jackpot in a lottery like Powerball are 1 in 300 million.
Mark LaFlamme: The mystery of the soggy green couch with bonus fungal infection
Talk of the Town: A new daddy, unmentionable ring worms and unclaimed cocaine.
Mark LaFlamme: There are ghosts walking among us
Street Talk: Unsolved deaths of a suspicious nature are specters that gnaw at the collective memories of the community. They haunt and haunt and haunt.
Mark LaFlamme: There’s a disturbing lack of fireworks and fireflies
Talk of the Town: We apparently have given up on lighting off firecrackers and hindquarters.
Mark LaFlamme: An identity stolen and not a soul to help
Street Talk: The biggest horror of them all in this sordid affair is that there seems to be no one in the world at all able or willing to extricate Riley from the ongoing nightmare.
Mark LaFlamme: At last! A reason to get naked
Talk of the Town: Buffed bumpers, advanced physics, Bactine, trouser terror. When it rains . . .
Mark LaFlamme: Suicide’s unwitting players have to live with the trauma
Street Talk: I’ll never understand why a person would want to end his own suffering by inflicting suffering upon another.
Mark LaFlamme: It’s not so much what you said but the way you said it
Talk of the Town: Rain. Breezy tussles. Higher math. Jilted lovers. What a week. How about a do-over?
Mark LaFlamme: Do you want to be an award-winning reporter? Write this down.
Street Talk: One-on-one interviews may not be the meat and potatoes of a news story, but they are definitely the carrots and peas.