Talk of the Town: It’s not the holidays without nog, chips, rum balls, corn and fruitcake. Especially the fruitcake.
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 inMaine Crime, Oxford Hills
Norway man charged in August store robbery
Greggory Smallwood, 21, was indicted on a charge of robbery in connection with the Aug. 26 stickup.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime
Lewiston police arrest 8 suspects in drug raid
Police and task force agents went to 149 College St. on Tuesday afternoon where they found 17 people inside the single-family home.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: Punk Icee, mysterious street wanderer, dies at 64
Street Talk: Punk lived a lifestyle that would seem almost Sisyphean to the rest of us: walk the streets from dawn until dusk, find enough empty bottles and cans to get by another day, and then when that day is done, get up and do it all over again.
Posted inbPlus, Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: Have you had enough of winter yet?
Talk of the town: I’m dreaming of a Fort Lauderdale Christmas, just like the ones I used to … ah fuhgeddaboudit.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Robert V. Connors Elementary principal responds to sex assault allegations
Donald Ferrara’s attorney, Walter McKee, firmly denied all allegations and said his client plans to appeal the protection order. He also noted that the woman who filed the order has made unfounded claims about Ferrara dating back more than 10 years.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime
Two arrested after traffic stop in Auburn
Police said 40-year-old Jovan Calhoun, the driver of the car that was stopped, is a habitual offender who was free on a half dozen bail contracts following a slew of earlier charges for drug and driving offenses.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Connors Elementary School principal in Lewiston served with protection from abuse order
After a hearing in District Court in Wiscasset on Monday, Donald Ferrara Jr. was served with the protection order prohibiting him from having any contact with the woman who filed for the order.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Two pedestrians hurt in separate collisions in Auburn on Friday morning
Two morning crashes occurred first on Court Street, and less than two hours later, on Hampshire Street.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: If I ask your age, an editor is making me do it
Street Talk: The man in question is doing math in his head. He’s calculating the pros and cons of giving out his real age and trying to deduce how this might trip him up down the road.