With so many rounds whizzing through downtown, it’s probably not a matter of IF some innocent soul gets gunned down, but rather a matter of WHEN.
Street talk
Mark LaFlamme is on the hunt for the New Jersey drone swarms
The government? Aliens? Or just holiday lights on a hill? Reports of drone armadas have traveled from New Jersey to Maine and I’ll find them even if I have to travel all the way to Durham.
Covering news in Sabattus. How hard can it be?
Street Talk: Mark LaFlamme feels a bit like that Sisyphus fellow rolling that rock up a mountain over and over.
Mark LaFlamme: The ghost of Punk Icee and other phantoms of the streets
Street Talk: All of those fantastic street phantoms are gone now and yet my eyes will lie to me out of pure yearning for the olden days
Mark LaFlamme: Lewiston-Auburn police won’t budge on the matter of radio traffic
Talk of the Town: The police have never provided a convincing argument for why they needed to encrypt their radio transmissions, Mark LaFlamme writes.
Mark LaFlamme: The long gone things we miss the most
Street Talk: Lots of people miss lots of places and things, as it turns out, and those memories came flying at me like a storm of time-traveling locusts.
Mark LaFlamme: Mad Dog, Massage and Murder: A glimpse into my old files
Street Talk: In search of a single file, I had to go digging through a whole lot of boxes, and a whole bunch of memories came flapping out like deranged moths to greet me.
Mark LaFlamme: Grab your slingshots, kids; it’s scary movie time
While I’ll never experience the kind of soul-deep terror that a kid feels when sitting bug-eyed for a scary flick, I do still enjoy a good spine-tingler; so much, in fact, that I’ve compiled you a list.
Mark LaFlamme: ‘Something weird in a tree:’ A mystery that ended too soon
Street Talk: The real mystery here wasn’t what was contained in that strange, plump bundle. The real mystery to me is how it got up there in the first place.
Auburn community rallies around 67-year-old homeless woman
Street Talk: She doesn’t drink, she doesn’t do drugs, she’s friendly with police. That’s made this 67-year-old woman a target for the other homeless in and around Auburn’s Bonney Park.