Talk of the Town: This would finally fulfill a lifelong dream of mine in which I get to be the dude who runs along the beach yelling ‘Shark! Get out of the water!’ just like Chief Brody himself on the big day.
Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: Where have all the UFOs gone?
Street Talk: All my life I’ve been down here waiting for Mork to appear and yet the only UFO experiences I have are vicarious.
Mark LaFlamme: Long pants for the coming zombie apocalypse
Talk of the Town: Once you pay to get into Range Pond State Park, you might as well enjoy some beach time even if you’re wearing long pants on a sweltering hot day and being called ‘Senor Pantalones’ by other beachgoers.
Street Talk: Bad vibes in Lewiston, then and now
If you spend a lot of time in downtown Lewiston you don’t require any kind of scientific study or earnest crunching of the numbers to reveal what your gut is screaming at you like a klaxon: tread carefully, brother. There is danger afoot.
Mark LaFlamme: Behold the power of cheese
Talk of the Town: Tricky words, ornery pedestrians and back at Hobby Lobby for . . . never you mind.
Mark LaFlamme: Obscura Cafe and other entities from alternate dimensions
Mark LaFlamme finds driving past Lewiston businesses looks a lot different than it used to.
Mark LaFlamme: Does anything say summer like spittle, beguilement and nagging hoot owls?
Talk of the Town: Just don’t get within spittin’ distance.
Kathi McCue to the animal rescue: New wildlife rehabber in Bowdoin welcomed in the local critter community
Make no mistake: Becoming a wildlife rehabber is not for the lazy or the squeamish.
Mark LaFlamme: Oh, nuts! Oozing garbage and pickpocket chipmunks
Talk of the Town: Does any heartbreak compare to the anguish of finding a full shelf of pistachios before discovering . . .
Mark LaFlamme: More questions than answers in Auburn double homicide
Street Talk: In this age of social media, online public records, local Facebook groups and the phenomenon of “mutual friend” connections, your average Joe and Jane have become impressively proficient at sleuthing