Street Talk: Editors have the magic to make bad writing good and to make good writing better. When they’re not sending you off to do stupid stuff, that is.
Mark LaFlamme
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Talk of the town: The purloined fire truck and a selfishly devoured meat pie
Got flu meds? You either pay ridiculous prices for the brand stuff or you find yourself out in Kennedy Park in the wee hours going: ‘Psss, hey buddy. Got any fizz?’
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Mark LaFlamme: Some heartwarming Christmas stories
Talk of the Town: St. Nicholas’ bail set at $50,000 or $150,000 surety.
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Mark LaFlamme: Lewiston-Auburn police radios remain silent — for us
Street Talk: It’s been a year-and-a-half of police radio silence now in the Twin Cities. In other parts of the country, compromises have been reached but in Lewiston-Auburn, police have dug in their heels.
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Mark LaFlamme: It’s not the size of the knife that matters
Talk of the Town
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Mark LaFlamme: Out with the old, in with the new
Street Talk: Moving just down the road a sneeze from 104 Park to 64 Lisbon St.
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Mark LaFlamme: Disney On Ice got nuthin’ on me
You should have seen me out there: eyes big as saucers, arms pinwheeling like a . . .
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Mark LaFlamme: The sad and mysterious death of Jason Lavoie
Street Talk: Some deaths hit particularly hard in the local community and this was one of those from the start. And the sad news was compounded a great deal by the inexplicable nature of Lavoie’s death.
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Mark LaFlamme: This newspaper office needs a pole
Talk of the Town: Not the kind of pole that wrecks cars in a Walmart parking lot. But the kind that lets crime reporters escape the newsroom and chase down breaking news.
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Mark LaFlamme: Justin Butterfield’s dark night of the soul
I’ve been covering crime in the Lewiston-Auburn area for nearly 30 years now, but I’ll tell you this. There have been very few stories so shocking and so downright ugly over those years that they’ve kept me up at night. But this one did. The killing at a quiet little trailer park in Poland stuck […]