A fairly recent innovation based on a very old method of fire building has resulted in a line of ‘smokeless’ fire pits to cut down on the amount of smoke released by a backyard fire.
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Mark LaFlamme: Two-ply thoughts on Chris Rock and things
Talk of the Town: Meditations on Minions, The Oscars, vacations, toilet paper and so much more.
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A modern ‘Lord of the Flies’ in Auburn’s Bonney Park
The video out of Bonney Park shows a pair of girls stomping, kicking, punching, kneeing, slapping and generally pummeling a man and a woman who are seated on the ground, offering no threat and putting up no defense.
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Will you marry me? The stories behind 7 readers’ unique marriage proposals.
They were on golf courses. In elevators. In ski lodges. In noisy clubs. Leaning over birthday cakes. At someone else’s wedding. And even in churches. How they popped the question.
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Mark LaFlamme: Things that creep and crawl
Talk of the Town: Spiders, and North American semi-aquatic murder editors, and bears, oh my!
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Mark LaFlamme: Shamelessly trolling for column ideas
Street Talk: Some very fine ideas were floated by me over the course of the day, and I’d like to get to each and every one of them, but as you can see, I’m almost out of space.
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Mark LaFlamme: Do you hear what I hear?
Talk of the Town: I can’t afford to go anywhere, but my toilet light provides all the entertainment I need, by golly.
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Mark LaFlamme: A mysterious donation and odd request spur Lewiston panhandler Jess Paquette to tell her story
Street Talk: It was business as usual on a Lewiston street corner until a stranger approached Jess Paquette with a wad of cash and a strange offer.
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Mark LaFlamme: Reporting to you from another dimension where baseball isn’t canceled
Talk of the Town: Baseball canceled!? How come nasty things like black flies, deer ticks and potholes never get canceled?
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Mark LaFlamme: Callbacks to reporters sure to come all at once
Street Talk: For some stories, a lovable and hardworking reporter is required to contact a whole lot of people.