Talk of the Town: Award-winning columnist Mark LaFlamme ruminates on easy-access fires, extraterrestrial ball armies, the halcyon days when Lewiston and Auburn were going to unite, working his gluten, and so much more.
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Mark LaFlamme: Things that creep and crawl
Talk of the Town: Spiders, and North American semi-aquatic murder editors, and bears, oh my!
Mark LaFlamme: Do you hear what I hear?
Talk of the Town: I can’t afford to go anywhere, but my toilet light provides all the entertainment I need, by golly.
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
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.
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.
Mark LaFlamme: Winter’s confusing overtime rules
Talk of the Town: Taking aim at falling lizards, January, football overtime rules, the laws on cleaning cast iron pans and so much more.
Mark LaFlamme: Swearing about the cold in German
Talk of the Town: An unusual tour of Deutschland featuring boots, Greene sand, Reddy Kilowatt, heroes, late-night accidents and so much mehr. Want some schnitzel with that?
Mark LaFlamme: Dead batteries and bruised tailbones
Talk of the Town: ‘I’m getting a lot of spam lately that begins with ‘Hello, dear.’ ‘
Talk of the town: It feels like burning
It was a week of barb-wire cold (if you know what I mean), saltine success, sand snitches, being Greene with shame, and no honeymoon photos.