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PublishedFebruary 8, 2022
Mark LaFlamme: Speaker’s is closed, and Lewiston will never be the same
Street Talk: For nearly four decades, the downtown business has been tucked into its little space on Spruce Street, a buzzing beehive of a place where locals picked up hot food and groceries while also catching up on neighborhood gossip.
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PublishedFebruary 1, 2022
Mark LaFlamme: Rumors, half truths and speculation are part of the job
Street Talk: A lot of rumors have absolutely no basis in reality, and yet they still have value.
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2022
Street Talk: What is the ghastliest news of all?
For me, the most dreadful stories of them all are those where, in the glow of the police and ambulance lights, the pain is only just beginning.
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PublishedJanuary 18, 2022
Mark LaFlamme: Why Maine instead of Florida?
'Why?' I asked the feckless remains of my splintered shovel. 'Why in the name of all things holy does anyone stay in Maine knowing what the winters are like?'
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2022
The arctic throat punch and other scary weather terms
Street Talk: This arctic blast isn't going to make a Jack-Nicholson-at-the-end-of-'The-Shining'-style popsicle out of me, no sir. I'm all kinds of ready for this.
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PublishedJanuary 4, 2022
I have been to the top of the coffee bean mountain
Street Talk: I'd go door to door preaching the word of the cold brew carafe if I thought it would help deliver you poor souls from that wretched paste you swill morning after morning.
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PublishedDecember 28, 2021
Remembering ‘the bike lady,’ Ruth Slovenski
Street Talk: Ruth Slovenski was well known for many things in the Bates College community and elsewhere, but in my small circle, she's known most famously for her bicycle.
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PublishedDecember 21, 2021
Tourtiere pie: You don’t have to say it right to enjoy it
Street Talk: Somewhere, somehow, all the holiday gremlins in the world had conspired to replace my salubrious tourtiere pie with some look-alike abomination!
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PublishedDecember 14, 2021
The Christmas spirit can’t overcome the lies and ferocious hate
Street Talk: In place of Christmas joy comes the grinding unhappiness of living in a demoralized and divided world — a world that no longer makes sense.
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PublishedDecember 8, 2021
Waiting in dread for the first Big One of the snow season
Street Talk: The fabled Snow Scoop of Damocles hangs over us all.
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