You younger kids will have a hard time believing this, but back in the day, hardworking professional types such as myself kept all of our important phone numbers written on little squares of paper. I kid you not, whippersnappers. We wrote those phone numbers in “pen” and kept them all together in a little “box-type […]
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This aisle for 10 items or less
Wallingford’s summertime death machine Some heartless wife I know tricked me into going to Wallingford’s last weekend and managed to crush both my spirit and my heart. Wallingford’s is a fine place and all, but I associate the joint with fall and all things autumnal. Being there on a hot summer day just felt wrong. […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Stuff I swore I'd never do as a reporter
The guy on Walnut Street was talking fast and pointing every which way, frantically trying to describe the experience of having bullets flying over his head. I scribbled as quickly as I could to keep up, but this guy was talking in such a rat-a-tat-tat fury of words, I was afraid the notebook pages would […]
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Talk of the Town: It happened on Knox Street. And also Bartlett, Howe and Walnut.
The tragic tale of the light blue windbreaker So, during an epic trail ride on Sunday through Auburn, Buckfield, Canton and Turner, my beloved blue windbreaker jumped off the back of my bike and vanished seemingly forever. What followed was me basically weeping all over Facebook and pleading for its safe return. Let’s be realistic, […]
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Mark LaFlamme: All of summer in one weekend
If I was a more enterprising lad, I’d create a service in which people could fulfill all of their summertime desires over one glorious — and probably sleepless — Labor Day weekend. You know how it is, my bros. Labor Day comes around and you’re just moping all through the family barbecue because you realize you […]
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Mark LaFlamme: This good deed does go unpunished — unfortunately
The fear was palpable. It hung thick as gun smoke in the afternoon air. There were moments when I lost all hope of surviving the encounter. I became resigned to my own sad end. I made my peace with it. But let me start at the beginning. The woman was perhaps 78 years old, and […]
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Stable helps rider rein in his troubles with horses
‘Deadwood’-primed writer finds Deepwood Farm horseback ride may spur the healing.
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Talk of the town: The trash can really speaks to me
Run for your life So, I’m circling downtown Lewiston in search of column morsels. It’s slim pickings out there on a night that smells of baking bread. In Kennedy Park, it’s just the usual mobs of people doing mysterious park things. On Lisbon Street it’s mostly commerce and downtown hubbub, although I did happen upon […]
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Street Talk: #$@% this!
So, I was grilling a steak Saturday night when the back of my hand came in contact with the metal grill lid. The pain was immediate. There was even a nice sizzling sound to verify that my flesh was being charred. It took only a split second for my pain receptors to register the agony, […]
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Talk of the town: At the drive-in, everyone can hear me scream
3 a.m. tuna I got wicked excited last week when I spotted a sign in Lewiston’s Hannaford parking lot that declared “Starting Aug. 8, 24 hours.” Total happy dance. Finally, a place I can go at 4 a.m. when I have a hankering for Vienna sausages, potato sticks, Jiffy Pop (it really IS as much […]