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PublishedJanuary 24, 2022
Street Talk: What is the ghastliest news of all?
For me, the most dreadful stories of them all are those where, in the glow of the police and ambulance lights, the pain is only just beginning.
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PublishedJanuary 23, 2022
Mark LaFlamme: Dead batteries and bruised tailbones
Talk of the Town: 'I'm getting a lot of spam lately that begins with 'Hello, dear.' '
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PublishedJanuary 18, 2022
Mark LaFlamme: Why Maine instead of Florida?
'Why?' I asked the feckless remains of my splintered shovel. 'Why in the name of all things holy does anyone stay in Maine knowing what the winters are like?'
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PublishedJanuary 16, 2022
Talk of the town: It feels like burning
It was a week of barb-wire cold (if you know what I mean), saltine success, sand snitches, being Greene with shame, and no honeymoon photos.
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PublishedJanuary 16, 2022
Games people play: Family game night is bigger than ever
Maybe it's COVID-19. Maybe it's a desire for more human interaction. Whatever the reasons, getting together to play games is hot in Maine — everything from an old-fashion game of cribbage to Matthew Strout's 1,000-plus-game passion.
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2022
The arctic throat punch and other scary weather terms
Street Talk: This arctic blast isn't going to make a Jack-Nicholson-at-the-end-of-'The-Shining'-style popsicle out of me, no sir. I'm all kinds of ready for this.
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PublishedJanuary 9, 2022
Talk of the town: In search of an appellation
I've been skulking around Lewiston's prime spots for so long, you'd think people would have taken to calling me "Kennedy Park Mark," "Canal Man" or . . .
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PublishedJanuary 4, 2022
I have been to the top of the coffee bean mountain
Street Talk: I'd go door to door preaching the word of the cold brew carafe if I thought it would help deliver you poor souls from that wretched paste you swill morning after morning.
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2022
I ain’t eatin’ that
This week, columnist LaFlamme vociferates on saltines, grocery bags, top 10 lists and French pastry.
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PublishedDecember 28, 2021
Remembering ‘the bike lady,’ Ruth Slovenski
Street Talk: Ruth Slovenski was well known for many things in the Bates College community and elsewhere, but in my small circle, she's known most famously for her bicycle.
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