Mark LaFlamme: When in doubt, before buckling up put some pants on.
Mark LaFlamme
He sleeps outdoors and sometimes goes hungry; but don’t call the man homeless
Mark LaFlamme was looking for someone with an interesting story to tell, and he found one bundled up in three blankets and sitting on a sidewalk.
In praise of hero store clerks, snow angels and cool millions
Mark LaFlamme: I was feeling really good about my two-mile snowshoe journey until I wasn’t.
Enjoying winter with a song on my lips and my tongue on a flagpole
Talk of the Town: !!#$@! is what Mark LaFlamme has to say about this weather.
Planning to do some last-minute Valentine’s Day shopping? It could be worse.
Mark LaFlamme: My relationship with my truck will be copacetic once I get this new exhaust system scotch-taped on.
Introducing William ‘Skeets’ Miller, the bravest reporter I know
It was compassion that drove Skeets on, not the prospect of journalistic glory, writes Mark LaFlamme.
Calling in sick is just as bad as the disease preventing you from working
To call in sick to work, one has to admit to another human being that his flesh is so weak that he can be taken down by wee little invaders not even visible to the naked eye, Mark LaFlamme writes.
Getting a tooth crowned doesn’t make you the king of anything
Mark LaFlamme swears he didn’t act like a wimp at the dentist.
Lewiston church pastor confronts early-morning stranger in rectory
The Rev. Daniel Greenleaf chased away a suspected burglar who was later arrested on charges of breaking into two homes and stealing a purse and a car from one of them, Mark LaFlamme writes.
Victim of Poland shooting still wonders who shot him. And who killed his friend?
How it all went down depends entirely on who you ask, Mark LaFlamme writes. But the killing of Richard Tayman Jr. on Aug. 2 has since been declared a case of self-defense.