Out of the wreckage on that Clinton back road came the devastating personal details that brought the bigger picture into hideous focus.
Street talk
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Shine on, you lost diamond
Her name is Ann and she came to the newspaper with all the earnestness of a woman come to pay her taxes. We went inside, found a quiet little conference room and took chairs across from each other. An older lady, is Ann. Perhaps in her 70s, perhaps a little older. When she sat across […]
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Demolishing monuments to local journalism
Progress is a thing that has to happen everywhere sooner or later. Now it’s Lewiston’s turn to transform generations of memories into shopping, green space and modern housing.
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The return (sorta) of the phone book
They used to be every bit as important as the web browser on that Samsung Doohickey 9 you carry in your pocket today.
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Send in the clowns, I’m not afraid
The terror was real and it was absolute. Frozen I sat in my chair, as still as a living thing can possibly be, as the monster clown marched up and down the aisles in search of a victim. In my head played a fear-struck mantra: Don’t notice me. Don’t notice me. Oh, for the love […]
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Street Talk: Painting of Auburn home a mystery
The lady’s name is Suzanne and her house is glorious. With its rounded tower capped with a steep, pointed turret, the house rises out of an Auburn field dominated by wildflowers, tall grass and giant trees that crowd in as if to guard it from the annoyances of the world beyond. It is a Queen […]
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Street Talk: The kiss heard ’round Facebook
Photographer Russ Dillingham originally didn’t intend to publish the kiss photo. I encouraged him to do so and I regret nothing. The photo, of a handcuffed lass kissing a bearded man while a pair of police officers patiently wait, is a perfect snapshot of hardscrabble life in downtown Lewiston. She’s a woman in love who […]
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Street Talk: Runaways and missing persons
All over the land, people are running away. Many of the missing are teens and preteens. They pack their bags and slip off in the night to protest abuse or what they deem injustice in their home lives. Or perhaps they have fallen in love and the lure of young romance on the road is […]
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Street Talk: A midsummer night’s scream
Writer Mark LaFlamme attends this year’s Fourth of July festivities as good-old Yankee Doodle Downer.
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Mark LaFlamme: Move along, nothing to see here
The interview was just terrific. The subject was a man who had been an emergency dispatcher for more than two decades, and he had amazing stories to tell. Powerful stories about trying to keep steady and calm when bullets were flying, when cars were crashing or when buildings were burning. A significant chunk of the […]