Maybe river whispers promises of sweet relief if one can just take that final step off the greasy bridge railing. If so, I say ignore it, my friends, at all costs.
Street talk
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Mark LaFlamme: Did you hear what happened on Nichols Street?
While I may not be very bright, give me 10 years, a guy with a gun, some barking dogs and Amazon, and I’ll find a way around just about any problem.
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Mark LaFlamme: Prom night terror
I was cruising around the Bates College campus on my motorcycle when the invasion got underway. One minute is was just a quiet Saturday on campus and the next it was outright madness. Young women were roaming lawns and sidewalks in flowing gowns and extravagant hairdos. Boys were sauntering in tuxedos all debonair, their hair […]
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Street Talk: The little girl, the old woman and the ramp: Good deeds in a weary world
It was a few weeks before Christmas and the parade of people hauling money into the newsroom showed no sign of slowing. One by one they came with envelopes stuffed with cash, coffee cans full of coins or crumpled dollar bills tugged from pockets on the spot. Some gave big, some gave small, most gave […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Hoping for a summer of big news without tragedy
2018 was full of sad news. Give me a werewolf, an Elvis Presley sighting or anything featuring the term “alien baby” and we’ll have a summer of news without any heartache.
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Street Talk: My eye! Adventures in fishing
I had been sitting calmly on that rock when it occurred to me that maybe the fish would be more apt to bite if I climbed a tree and cast from a high branch. I mean, that’s straight physics right there.
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Country girl chronicles life in Lewiston
In Berwick, Lisa would sit on the hammock and wait for nature to entertain her. In Lewiston, it’s very much the same, although the nature of the wildlife has changed.
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Street Talk: Snow days then vs. snow days now
Getting ready to do something truly stupid with a roof rake and a saucer sled.
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Mark LaFlamme: The five (or so) stages of a head cold
Your head feels as though some cruel sadist has stuffed a hose in each of your ears and pumped it full of pea soup.
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Mark LaFlamme: Caught on camera: Things and stuff!
I was pretty excited the day I got a camera for my car dashboard. “This is going to be great,” I told whomever was sitting in my passenger seat that day. “Street brawls, explosions, naked people doing weird stuff, probably a UFO sighting or two and the Turner Yeti is bound to make an appearance. … […]