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.
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Mark LaFlamme: We’re going to need a bigger parking lot
Talk of the Town: The predatory pole is still stalking cars in the Walmart parking lot
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Talk of the town: Blowout sale at the county lockup
Pot buffers, Buck-Twenty-Five Tree and a new sheriff’s office way too close to Auto Row. Yup, another Street Talk and probing insights on current events.
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Mark LaFlamme: Objectivity is a journalist’s job
Street Talk: I know that I’m supposed to stick to objective facts in my reporting the same way I know that I’m not supposed to take that extra packet of cat food without paying for it at the grocery store.
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These couples took a chance on romance and found love online
14 area couples young and not-so-young share their stories of finding love thanks to dating sites, social media, Craigslist and even a local newspaper reporter’s weird Facebook page.
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Mark LaFlamme: Don’t forget to power wash your cat after every meal
Talk of the Town: There was a time when I was living directly above a Sam’s on Main Street in Lewiston and all I ate for three years straight was pizza and steak subs.
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My shot at playing Cupid
Andrew and Lisa liked each other, that was clear from the start. They had the same interests and the same sense of humor, obviously. But was it enough to build a relationship out of?
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Mark LaFlamme: Speaker’s is closed, and Lewiston will never be the same
Street Talk: For nearly four decades, the downtown business has been tucked into its little space on Spruce Street, a buzzing beehive of a place where locals picked up hot food and groceries while also catching up on neighborhood gossip.