Street Talk: Maybe someone will write a folk song about Maine’s lost ladies. Someone should.
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 inOxford Hills
Sumner man arrested after police standoff
Dean Hall was taken into custody at about 8 p.m., roughly eleven hours after police were called for a man reported to be throwing debris in the roadway.
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Posted inbPlus, Lewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: Menacing mollusks and mermaids in the muck
Talk of the Town goes where no unicorn, cat lady or canal mermaid have gone before. So clam down!
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime, News
Deaths of Lewiston teen and Massachusetts man declared double homicide
Lewiston School superintendent calls Mohamed Aden a “beloved member of our community.” No arrests have been made.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Latest storm underwhelms; another rolling in
Forecasters had originally predicted up to a foot of snow in some areas between Wednesday night and the early part of Thursday. High winds were also in the forecast, although they never developed.
Posted inFranklin
Connecticut man dies in snowmobile crash on Rangeley Lake
RANGELEY — The body of a Connecticut man killed in a snowmobile crash on Rangeley Lake over the weekend was recovered Wednesday by the Maine Warden Service. Officials said they recovered the body of Stephen J. Rogers, 43, of Milford, about 142 feet into the woods from the shore in Russell Cove. It was believed […]
Posted inBusiness, Franklin
Jay paper mill closing earlier than expected
Employees at Pixelle Androscoggin Mill were told Wednesday morning that doors would be closing as early as March 6 rather than later in the spring as previously announced.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: 21 years of blither
Street Talk: It’s downright strange to me that a person sitting next to me, drinking legally at a bar, could have been born the year I started writing Street Talk.
Posted inbPlus, Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: On UFOs, wilted roses and subterranean cannibal spiders
Lewiston relining 7 miles of sewer lines Welp, I hope these sewer workers have their affairs in order because we all know how this kind of thing goes in the movies. Once they’re down in those dank, pitch-black Hell portals they’re going to encounter a nest of man-eating spiders the size of pianos, a shuffling […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Auburn approves zoning rules for government buildings
An ordinance was put in place stating that any governmental building constructed in Auburn will require neighborhood impact studies and Planning Board approval.