For many long minutes, Kim Dupuis crouched beside the battered truck in Auburn and held the hand of the 3-year-old.
Mark LaFlamme
Tale of a Halloween home intruder…sort of
Talk of the Town: By the way, for the second time in around five years, I accidentally walked into the ladies room at a local business. In my defense …
The forces of darkness are upon us
Street Talk: All day on that first day of the time change we sun-loving souls will wander around in a daze, feeling disoriented and out of sorts.
Talk of the Town: Rudolph’s bloody revenge
To catch a thief Danny Caron of the Green Ladle is so distressed that someone ripped the catalytic converter off a company truck, he is offering a whooooole bunch of catered food for tips leading to the arrest of the culprit responsible. I’m with Danny on this one. When some fiend slithers beneath your ride […]
Green pants. ‘The Blob.’ The basement sump pump. A look into the shadows behind your childhood fears
On this All Hallows Eve, readers tell us about the everyday things and truly scary visions that haunted their childhoods.
Ode to a toothache
Street Talk: The pain of a bad tooth is immense. Extraordinary. When it comes for real — this screaming banshee of agony — you, the sufferer, will have moments where you are rendered clinically insane.
Haunted laundry and other horrors descend upon Maine
Talk of the Town: Put down the pumpkins and no one gets hurt.
How do you unfriend the real world?
Talk of the Town: Monday was a glorious day. Facebook and a whole bunch of similar social media apps were down pretty much around the clock. Did you notice the weird peace and civility that descended?
When it comes to cops and the media, times have changed
Street Talk: It’s become tense and guarded on both ends, and you can’t blame the police for this — the media hasn’t been altogether kind to cops in recent years.
Jennifer Smith of Auburn talks about being Elf on a Shelf
Face Time: ‘I’ve never met a single person who hasn’t smiled or laughed when seeing me as an elf.’