Mark LaFlamme is a Sun Journal reporter and weekly columnist. He's been on the nighttime police beat since 1994, which is just grand because he doesn't like getting out of bed before noon. Mark is the author of eight published novels and rides a dual sport motorcycle everywhere he goes. Unless it's winter, in which case he just sulks a lot.
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PublishedDecember 28, 2019
Tragedies, new schools, surprise resignations and a town revolt: The top local stories of 2019
History was made, political battles turned ugly and some people were booted out of positions they thought they held fast. However you feel about 2019 in our little corner of the world, it probably didn’t bore you.
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PublishedDecember 27, 2019
Lewiston police investigating storage unit break-ins
Thieves have been cutting locks and breaking into storage units across Lewiston.
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PublishedDecember 27, 2019
Strong man charged with arson after kitchen catches fire
STRONG — A local man was arrested on suspicion of arson early Friday after reporting a house fire on Lambert Hill Road. At about 1:30 a.m., Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy Alan Elmes went to the home after a resident reported a fire in his kitchen. The flames were extinguished by the fire department, and the […]
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PublishedDecember 25, 2019
Time travel and the Bluelight Special
The last thing I ever bought from Kmart was a Route 66 hooded sweatshirt, fleece lined everywhere, including the sleeves.The Cadillac of hoodies, the Route 66. And it would have to be just that special to lure me into Auburn’s Kmart, a place I had generally avoided for years.It is not that I did not […]
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PublishedDecember 22, 2019
Aren’t we all just a Barrel of Monkeys?
Get out of my head, Edward Gorey So, I’ve been having a whole lot of trouble sleeping lately. I ALMOST get there, but then unsettling thoughts come plowing into my head like a freight train out of hell and I’m wide awake again. The other night, in that gray place between awake and asleep, my […]
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PublishedDecember 20, 2019
‘Mazel tov!” Temple Shalom celebrates Chanukah
There was music, a catered dinner, crafts, games, latkes and jelly donuts for the annual Festival of Lights.
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PublishedDecember 19, 2019
‘A nice challenge:’ Writers, artists, students team up for LHS diversity exhibit
Organizers say they’d like to make “Consider This: Lewiston” a yearly event.
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PublishedDecember 18, 2019
Water main bursts in Lewiston
LEWISTON – A section of Farwell Street was closed to traffic Wednesday night after a water main burst beneath the street. City workers closed down a section of the street at about 5:30 p.m. in the area Warren Avenue. Several people passing by reported a large crack in the pavement and water was gushing out […]
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PublishedDecember 18, 2019
Turner woman sentenced to a year and a day in prison for embezzlement
Melissa Greelaw pleaded guilty to stealing more than $100,000 from a health care company’s pension plan.
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PublishedDecember 17, 2019
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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