Talk of the Town
Mark LaFlamme
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Mark LaFlamme: Out with the old, in with the new
Street Talk: Moving just down the road a sneeze from 104 Park to 64 Lisbon St.
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Face Time: Joe Charpentier — New kid on the news block. Sort of.
The Sun Journal’s new spot news reporter comes via Down East, Farmington, Wales (the country), Massachusetts and more, acquiring experience needed for even the toughest weather story.
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Mark LaFlamme: Disney On Ice got nuthin’ on me
You should have seen me out there: eyes big as saucers, arms pinwheeling like a . . .
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Mark LaFlamme: The sad and mysterious death of Jason Lavoie
Street Talk: Some deaths hit particularly hard in the local community and this was one of those from the start. And the sad news was compounded a great deal by the inexplicable nature of Lavoie’s death.
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Mark LaFlamme: This newspaper office needs a pole
Talk of the Town: Not the kind of pole that wrecks cars in a Walmart parking lot. But the kind that lets crime reporters escape the newsroom and chase down breaking news.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Maine Crime, Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: Justin Butterfield’s dark night of the soul
I’ve been covering crime in the Lewiston-Auburn area for nearly 30 years now, but I’ll tell you this. There have been very few stories so shocking and so downright ugly over those years that they’ve kept me up at night. But this one did. The killing at a quiet little trailer park in Poland stuck […]
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Mark LaFlamme: RIP Mike LaFlamme
Talk of the Town: No one has died. Just an old joke. Try not to be sad.
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Mark LaFlamme: 104 Park St. has always felt like home
Street Talk: This is what a newspaper should look like — a temple where one could worship and study all the great mysteries that local history had to offer.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Talk of the town: Cold, snow and a red-hot union suit
Am I blue? Yes, I’m blue As of Nov. 17, we still hadn’t turned on the heat at my house. Impressive, ain’t it? Screw you, heating oil prices! I actually ENJOY sleeping next to the oven in a Carhartt coat and snow boots! Under things You know, I still have that bright red onesie I […]