Mark LaFlamme is back from vacation and dives into pot holes.
Mark LaFlamme
Staff Writer
Mark LaFlamme is a Sun Journal reporter and weekly columnist. He's been on the nighttime police beat since 1994, which is just grand because he doesn't like getting out of bed before noon. Mark is the author of eight published novels and rides a dual sport motorcycle everywhere he goes. Unless it's winter, in which case he just sulks a lot.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Disc golf building burns in Auburn
The first crews on scene reported that the building was fully engulfed.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Lewiston and Auburn police shut down commenting on Facebook
Police in the departments have shut down commenting for all future posts they make on the social media platform.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, Maine Crime, Oxford Hills
Suspect arrested after chase in Oxford County ends in Poland crash
Early reports were that the chase began after a RAM pickup truck had been stolen from a dealership on Main Street in Norway by a man who took the keys and sped away.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Massachusetts man charged with drug trafficking, gun crimes
The drug trafficking charges are considered aggravated, police said, because Selter-Luna was caught with a gun related to drug trafficking within 1,000 feet of Chestnut Street Park, a designated “safe zone.”
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local Sports, Maine, Mark LaFlamme, News, Sports
If only Lewiston could be a hockey town again . . .
I’m sorry, but if you can’t fill The Colisée for junior hockey even when tickets are given away, you don’t get to wear the Hockey Town moniker anymore, writes Mark LaFlamme.
Posted inbPlus, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine
After 19 years of the odd, the trendy, the fun and the ‘greatest booty,’ the b section says so long
‘The ‘b section’ wasn’t just a new product or section of the newspaper — it was a reflection of what makes Maine unique, maybe even quirky.’
Posted inAndroscoggin County, bPlus, Maine
Lisbon’s Len Lednum always loved models, but it took a career change for him to think small
Lednum molded a Buxton-based tiny billboard maker into a producer of highly detailed miniature Americana.
Posted inbPlus, Lewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Dealing with billfold curses and delicious, cryptic death threats
Mark LaFlamme: They are called ‘trousers.’ You pronounce it ‘MAK-a-roon.’ And where are my flip-flops and umbrella drink?
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Business, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, Maine Crime
Pair arrested in Auburn in organized retail theft investigation, police say
Police said the men attempted to throw fake identification cards out the window as they were being pulled over by police on Washington Street just before noon Wednesday.