The centuries-old game appears to be very popular in the area for a whole lot of reasons including the memories it evokes. The trash talk is a bonus.
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.
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Mark LaFlamme: Prime rib in pill form, please
Street Talk: We’ve got supercomputers small enough to tuck into our pockets. We’ve got bug-looking cameras that fly around in the sky and we’ve got artificial intelligence writing term papers and composing music. All of that and yet no food in pill form to eliminate the need for inconvenient eating.
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Mark LaFlamme: More on Lewiston’s Divan of Mystery
Talk of the Town: I already had a nice little island picked out. The lottery’s rigged.
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Mark LaFlamme: The rock, the rattle and other works of Lewiston art
Street Talk: It remains to be seen if the people of Lewiston will ever grow to love “the rock” in Kennedy Park like they’ve grown to love the zebra on the Canal Street parking garage.
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‘Somebody’s got to win’: Big jackpots, bigger dreams tempt local lottery lovers against all odds
The good news: Maine is the seventh luckiest state in the nation with five lottery jackpot winners receiving a total combined jackpot of $1.2 billion. The bad news: The odds of winning the big jackpot in a lottery like Powerball are 1 in 300 million.
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Mark LaFlamme: The mystery of the soggy green couch with bonus fungal infection
Talk of the Town: A new daddy, unmentionable ring worms and unclaimed cocaine.
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Woman burned in Lewiston cooking fire
Crews were called to 23 Spofford St. shortly before 7 p.m. for a report of fire in a kitchen.
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Red Cross assisting tenants of Thursday blaze in Auburn
The cause is being investigated by Auburn fire and police departments.
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Downtown apartment building burns in Auburn
As firefighters fought the fire from above, below and within, they also contended with 85 degree temperatures and thick humidity. Several pets were rescued, including one cat firefighters plucked from the roof of the burning building.
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Lewiston police investigate 2 gunshot reports; teen charged in one
Five cars were damaged by gunfire on Knox Street. A 17-year-old has been arrested.