Mark LaFlamme: Campaign signs from outta space

Talk of the town: What have vampires got against garlic, anyway?

In a word: How meds get those odd names

The letters H, J and W are often avoided when creating brand names because they’re difficult to pronounce in some languages.

Bugs: It’s what’s for dinner

Selling everywhere from online to giant Iowa truck stops, a Lewiston company is helping to change consumer tastes about crickets, mealworms, scorpions, ants and other crawling and flying edibles.

UMaine helping to get bugs on the menu

Mystery Photo for Oct. 15, 2023

Correctly guess where this photo was taken and you could win a $25 Hannaford Supermarket gift card.

Face Time: Town Clerk Doris Austin — putting smiles on faces in Livermore Falls

The Turner resident spent years honing her people skills at BJ's Wholesale in Auburn, but her heart never left the area where she grew up.

In a word: Maine is just so misunderstood

The common Maine phrase “right out straight,” for example, was correctly identified as meaning “very busy” by only 5% of those asked nationally.

Mystery Photo for Oct. 8, 2023

Correctly guess where this photo was taken and you could win a $25 Hannaford Supermarket gift card.

An early Hollywood movie star and ‘he-vamp’ is buried in Lewiston

Often playing a ladies man or a villain, Franco-American screen legend Lew Cody, who died in 1934, chose to return to Maine for eternal rest.

Face Time: Author Don Osborne brings us a turtle who wants to fly

The former Lewiston resident and avid outdoorsman says his three grandchildren are his best critics.