So, a dragon and a bright pink unicorn are walking up Lisbon Street, right? That’s not the start of a joke, it really happened.
Mark LaFlamme
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Street Talk: A long-ago fire burned into memory
Fire, I would come to accept, is as cruel and indiscriminate as any force on earth. It will take without compunction a child not yet old enough to walk on his own or an old woman too infirm to save herself.
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Talk of the Town: It’s probably not a shunning tale
Shunned? So, while I was reporting on the various activities planned by local churches for Easter, out of a dozen church leaders I queried, I only heard back from two. Now, I know it’s likely because they were very, very busy during Holy Week, but as I’ve mentioned previously, I get really uneasy when I […]
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LifeFlight’s new $6.25 million helicopter: Bigger. Faster. Smarter.
For the men and women who work on the Lewiston-based helicopter, the new Agusta comes with more tech, more room and more capabilities for saving lives.
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Mark LaFlamme: Awaiting the last press run on Park Street
Street Talk: In its way, the press is the very symbol of how news is supposed to work.
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Talk of the Town: Break out the Daisy Dukes, boys. It’s spring.
Lisa’s long-distance pizza Our good friend Lisa, who lives in downtown Lewiston, is at it again. The other night, she got a hankering for piping hot pizza so she placed her order, gave her address and provided all the necessary directions so she could get that pie as quick as possible. The delivery guy called […]
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Spring brings loose boats, gunfighting dickcissels
Street Talk: Potshots, potholes, public nudity and pond passion: Ahhhhhh, spring!
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Talk of the Town: Spring any which way you want
Time to change OK, mea culpa. I’ve learned my lesson and my shame is great. No more joking about that spring forward, fall back business. A couple people wrote in to scold me for getting it backward, in spite of the fact that I’ve been running that gag for years. The irony is that I […]
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Talk O’ the Town: Remember to spring back this Sunday
St. Patrick’s Day It may shock you to learn that I’ve never done much by way of celebrating St. Paddy’s Day, in spite of my sort of Irish heritage. I drank green beer once, but it turns out it had just been sitting on the coffee table for six weeks and had gone rancid. Boy, […]
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Street Talk: Roll up the windows, kids, we’re heading to Leeds
The messages used to come in like clockwork. “Golly,” the caller or letter writer would say. “You sure picked the right city in which to do your crime reporting.” “Sure did, Bucko,” I’d respond, because that’s the way we talked back then. “It’s keen.” Those out-of-town folks would be reacting to the latest atrocity to […]