Talk of the town: Riverside buffiness, tag-less T-shirts, mustard memos and more.
Mark LaFlamme
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Mark LaFlamme: Talk of the town — Spiders, ducks and Tommy Lee
Duck! So, I was happily riding my motorcycle out in the boonies of Minot, or possibly Buckfield, when I spotted two huge ducks at the side of the road. Now, you may think of ducks as innocuous creatures, but when you’re doing 55 on a bike, you definitely don’t want Daffy and co. waddling out […]
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‘Get dirty going fast:’ Grown-up toys and the ‘kids’ who play with them
More adults have toys, or at least admit to it. One possible reason: With calamity seemingly just around the next corner, if we don’t have something to occupy our minds now and then, why we might go collectively mad, and there’s no fun in that at all.
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Mark LaFlamme: Slow down, cowboy
Once in a lifetime I’m not one to brag, but I happen to be in possession of a rare photo of a hot air balloon floating over Lewiston. Believe you me, these types of pictures are not easy to come by, but I’m a journalist, by gum, and I tracked one down. Give me a […]
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Maine veterinarian crisis hurts pets, their owners and caregivers
Animal clinics across Maine have been trying to keep up with the number of sick animals coming their way, but waits are long just about everywhere.
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Mark LaFlamme: The unvarnished truth about the haunted well of Sabattus
Street Talk: The boy never spoke a coherent word again in his lifetime, as the story goes. When he spoke at all, he spoke in terrified gibberish of things no sane human mind could comprehend.
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Mark LaFlamme: Talk of the town: What’s that scent you’re wearing?
When it comes to gauging fluctuations in the economy and preparing for potential recessions, I use the price of aerosol cheese to dictate my level of panic. Well, it’s freak-out time, friends.
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Mark LaFlamme: How NOT to remove a bat from your house
Street Talk: By the time I pulled myself up and scraped the potting soil out of my ears, the bat was in the kitchen, flitting about in those crazy parabolas bats like so much.
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Mark LaFlamme: We’ve got enough problems with Target balls and earwigs
Talk of the Town: Target is almost here. I can hardly wait to see if Target’s iconic red orbs are going to get the same treatment Walmart’s maligned yellow poles get.
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Dennis Dechaine: Human sacrifice? Or justice well served?
There’s no gray area here. Either Dennis Dechaine is a monster who deserves every bit of the suffering he’s endured, or he’s a man in Hell, tied to one of the region’s worst atrocities.