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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PublishedFebruary 7, 2021
Mold, a blackened cell, water buckets and tales of headless skeletons: A tour of the 165-year-old Androscoggin County Courthouse
While the ghastly remains of a cell where a jail inmate may have burned alive is disturbing, it’s not the most troubling thing you’ll see on a tour of the quaint, but decrepit old building.
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PublishedFebruary 7, 2021
Face Time: Chris L’Hommedieu — the man behind ‘Love Songs and Love Letters’
L/A Community Little Theatre’s ‘Love Songs and Love Letters’ will be available for viewing at 7 p.m. on Feb. 12, 13 and 14. The shows can be accessed through the L/A Community Little Theatre webpage at laclt.com
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PublishedFebruary 7, 2021
Talk of the Town: My deep basso voice
Dollars and sense Oh, this is rich. Ever since I wrote a story about some local folks who received their stimulus checks in unsealed envelopes, I’ve been getting emails from people who want MY advice about their own financials. How should they go about inquiring about the status of their checks? How should they proceed […]
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PublishedFebruary 5, 2021
Suspect in Oxford standoff remains in jail on $35,000 bail
Brian Cabral, 42, appeared in court Friday on charges of creating a police standoff, violating conditions of release, unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs and domestic violence terrorizing.
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PublishedFebruary 5, 2021
Attorney General to Androscoggin County commissioners: Mask up
Aaron Frey sent a letter on the heels of a meeting Wednesday in which the panel voted to table a resolution rejecting the COVID-19 mask mandate ordered by Gov. Janet Mills.
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PublishedFebruary 4, 2021
Lewiston Big Brothers Big Sisters go big at Super Bowl
Photo cutouts of Connors Elementary School students displayed in stands during Sunday’s game in Tampa, Florida.
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PublishedFebruary 4, 2021
Buckfield homeowner arrested after standoff with police
State police say Daniel Sweetser met them at the door with an ax.
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PublishedFebruary 3, 2021
Norway man surrenders after 6-hour standoff
Brian Cabral was charged with aggravated drug trafficking, domestic terrorizing and violating bail conditions.
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PublishedFebruary 2, 2021
Street Talk: Who needs a shovel when you’ve got pure rage?
What’s worse is that now ordinary people like possibly you are talking about the coming storm, too, so I have to employ my black belt level talent for denial everywhere I go.
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PublishedJanuary 31, 2021
Talk of the town: Cold as a what, now?
It’s cold I know it’s cold because EVERY SINGLE TIME I step outside, I declare: “Holy $#!@#! It’s !#@! cold!” That’s the scientific way to know for sure that it’s $#!@#! cold. This is exactly how Lord Kelvin, the physicist William Thompson, discovered in 1892 that it was $#!@#! cold outside his lab over there […]
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