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 17, 2023
How tree ornaments tell our Christmas stories
Back in 2013, Jennifer Paré of Auburn delivered a eulogy at the Basilica in Lewiston for her late grandmother, who had recently passed. Paré said a lot about Mémère Muriel Picard, focusing on how much the woman had cared for her grandchildren. “She made each of us feel like the favorite,” Paré told the mourners. […]
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PublishedDecember 17, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: M’corn is hurtin’ so it must be almost Christmas
Talk of the Town: It’s not the holidays without nog, chips, rum balls, corn and fruitcake. Especially the fruitcake.
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PublishedDecember 15, 2023
Norway man charged in August store robbery
Greggory Smallwood, 21, was indicted on a charge of robbery in connection with the Aug. 26 stickup.
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PublishedDecember 15, 2023
Lewiston police arrest 8 suspects in drug raid
Police and task force agents went to 149 College St. on Tuesday afternoon where they found 17 people inside the single-family home.
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PublishedDecember 15, 2023
Androscoggin County arrest logs: Dec. 8-14, 2023
Lewiston • Adam Easter, 47, 2 Granite St., on charges of domestic violence aggravated assault, domestic violence criminal threatening and violating conditions of release and on a probation hold, at 11 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7, at that address. • Kenneth Bissonnette, 58, of 403 Marston Road, Gardiner, on a charge of domestic violence aggravated assault, […]
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PublishedDecember 12, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: Punk Icee, mysterious street wanderer, dies at 64
Street Talk: Punk lived a lifestyle that would seem almost Sisyphean to the rest of us: walk the streets from dawn until dusk, find enough empty bottles and cans to get by another day, and then when that day is done, get up and do it all over again.
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PublishedDecember 10, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: Have you had enough of winter yet?
Talk of the town: I’m dreaming of a Fort Lauderdale Christmas, just like the ones I used to … ah fuhgeddaboudit.
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PublishedDecember 9, 2023
Robert V. Connors Elementary principal responds to sex assault allegations
Donald Ferrara’s attorney, Walter McKee, firmly denied all allegations and said his client plans to appeal the protection order. He also noted that the woman who filed the order has made unfounded claims about Ferrara dating back more than 10 years.
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PublishedDecember 8, 2023
Two arrested after traffic stop in Auburn
Police said 40-year-old Jovan Calhoun, the driver of the car that was stopped, is a habitual offender who was free on a half dozen bail contracts following a slew of earlier charges for drug and driving offenses.
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PublishedDecember 8, 2023
Connors Elementary School principal in Lewiston served with protection from abuse order
After a hearing in District Court in Wiscasset on Monday, Donald Ferrara Jr. was served with the protection order prohibiting him from having any contact with the woman who filed for the order.
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