I ain’t eatin’ that

This week, columnist LaFlamme vociferates on saltines, grocery bags, top 10 lists and French pastry.

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.

Talk of the town: You’re as charming as an eel . . . oops

Jonesing for plastic bags, the woes of last-minute shopping, and fear of combusting plants: columnist Mark LaFlamme weighs in.

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! 

You loved feathered hair, clackers and Cabbage Patch Kids. Jarts, not so much, and one of you has the scars to show it.

We asked Sun Journal readers to share fond fad memories.

Talk of the town: Dressed to thrill

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.

Stop running over my food

Talk of the Town: I suppose that next some fool will drive into Wendy's, George's Pizza, Lewiston House of Pizza and the section of Hannaford where they sell those pre-cooked miniature chickens. If that happens, I'll just go ahead and die of malnutrition.

Waiting in dread for the first Big One of the snow season

Street Talk: The fabled Snow Scoop of Damocles hangs over us all.

Talk of the town: I know you are, but what am I?