Mark LaFlamme: The bat is back!

Talk of the town: Riverside buffiness, tag-less T-shirts, mustard memos and more.

Mark LaFlamme: Talk of the town — Spiders, ducks and Tommy Lee

Mark LaFlamme: Slow down, cowboy

Mark LaFlamme: Talk of the town: What’s that scent you’re wearing?

When it comes to gauging fluctuations in the economy and preparing for potential recessions, I use the price of aerosol cheese to dictate my level of panic. Well, it's freak-out time, friends.

Mark LaFlamme: We’ve got enough problems with Target balls and earwigs

Talk of the Town: Target is almost here. I can hardly wait to see if Target's iconic red orbs are going to get the same treatment Walmart's maligned yellow poles get.

Mark LaFlamme: Long pants for the coming zombie apocalypse

Talk of the Town: Once you pay to get into Range Pond State Park, you might as well enjoy some beach time even if you're wearing long pants on a sweltering hot day and being called 'Senor Pantalones' by other beachgoers.

Mark LaFlamme: Does anything say summer like spittle, beguilement and nagging hoot owls?

Talk of the Town: Just don't get within spittin' distance.

Mark LaFlamme: Oh, nuts! Oozing garbage and pickpocket chipmunks

Talk of the Town: Does any heartbreak compare to the anguish of finding a full shelf of pistachios before discovering . . .

Mark LaFlamme: They grow up so darn fast

Talk of the Town: That closed elevator door started to feel like the wall of a tomb and I'll tell you: I was starting to plot a bold, Hollywood-style escape through the ceiling hatch.

Mark LaFlamme: Let me tell you about the birds and the bears

Talk of the Town: You won't hear a peep out of us.