These letters ain’t sealed with kisses

Talk of the Town: Mark LaFlamme finally checks his mail box.

Hearts of the neighborhood: Readers share fond memories of Lewiston-Auburn’s many local markets

They were the many mom-and-pop stores, serving as local gathering places, sources for the basics and CANDY! and even community 'safety nets' for wayward kids and families short on cash. Some neighborhood markets still serve those roles today, but they are a dying breed cherished more than ever by those who remember them when they were everything and everywhere.

Street Talk: How to assemble a posse and retrieve a stolen bike

Jess Paquette, a local busker, had her bike and ukulele stolen. After a few posts on Facebook, the community rallied to find the missing stuff—and succeeded, mostly.

Talk of the town: Naked trees and fuzzy wieners

Street Talk: When newspapers were king

Reading news through a digital medium is long on efficiency but short on charm. There's a certain just-the-facts discipline about it that discourages dawdling when dawdling was always the kind of fun of reading a newspaper. 

Someone must have started a business hauling naked guys around Lewiston

Talk of the Town: Here and gone — naked guys, potato sticks and plastic shopping bags.

Street Talk: Arguing with a fool

I'm pretty sure that if I kept track, I'd find that I talk to myself way, WAY more than I talk to others.

Five years after the death of his daughter, Lisbon man receives her ring in the mail

Conrad Davis of Lisbon found comfort in receiving the ring, other coincidences about his daughter.

Talk of the town: Going my way?

Supermarket flaggers, the state of the economy and too many poles: The view from writer Mark LaFlamme's desk.

Face Time: Chasing Bigfoot (except in Turner) with Michelle Souliere

Bigfoot? The Turner Beast? If it's strange, mysterious or creepy, Michelle Souliere probably knows a thing or two about it.