Street Talk: Where a substance like fentanyl is apt to drop a man where he stands in his dreamy nod, liquor takes its time; a cat toying with a field mouse before delivering the fatal blow.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: A beloved fire investigator is leaving, and reporting will never be the same
Street Talk: At every fire scene I went to in Lewiston over the years, the first guy I looked for was Paul Ouellette.
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Mark LaFlamme: Editors ain’t so bad . . .
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.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Maine Crime, Mark LaFlamme
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 […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Naked chickens and runaway bones. Now THAT’S a weather story!
Street Talk: Those of you who have been around a while will know I feel about writing weather stories — I enjoy them about as much as I would enjoy leprosy or a meal of boiled kitty litter. I’m not a fan, me.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: My secret newsroom weapon
Street Talk: I have Cathy to thank for the fact that I am married; that I ride a dual sport motorcycle; that I no longer waste my moolah on vile cigarettes. And that’s not to mention the contributions she made to the craft of news gathering.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: The unvarnished truth about the haunted well of Sabattus
Street Talk: The boy never spoke a coherent word again in his lifetime, as the story goes. When he spoke at all, he spoke in terrified gibberish of things no sane human mind could comprehend.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: How NOT to remove a bat from your house
Street Talk: By the time I pulled myself up and scraped the potting soil out of my ears, the bat was in the kitchen, flitting about in those crazy parabolas bats like so much.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Street Talk: Bad vibes in Lewiston, then and now
If you spend a lot of time in downtown Lewiston you don’t require any kind of scientific study or earnest crunching of the numbers to reveal what your gut is screaming at you like a klaxon: tread carefully, brother. There is danger afoot.
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Mark LaFlamme: Obscura Cafe and other entities from alternate dimensions
Mark LaFlamme finds driving past Lewiston businesses looks a lot different than it used to.