In the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office mold grows wild in places, clinging to walls like some Stephen King horror waiting to reach out and grab you.
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Posted inMaine, Mark LaFlamme
Confessions of a terrible photographer | Mark LaFlamme
Little Jimmy with a Fisher-Price model camera is 10 times the photographer I am.
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Forecasting mayhem in Lewiston: How hard can it be? | Column
Aspiring news forecaster Mark LaFlamme is monitoring a high pressure system developing in the area of College and Sabattus streets as competing groups of day drinkers clash over front porch rights.
Posted inMaine, Mark LaFlamme, News
More memories coming down in Lewiston | Column
Watching the former Sun Journal office building at 40 Pine St. come down this week brought up lots of memories for Mark LaFlamme, and maybe a tear or two.
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Justification is elusive as video of downtown Lewiston beating goes viral | Column
After video of a homeless woman being beaten went viral last week, the locals turned their wrath on a 33-year-old woman who unabashedly admitted to being the assailant.
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, Maine Crime, Mark LaFlamme, News
Lewiston-Auburn restaurants rise up against repeat offender | Column
For years, Stephen Tardif has run amok at local businesses. The owners are fed up, but they are also pulling for him to get well.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme, News
Epic dine-and-dasher gets just desserts from online Lewiston-Auburn posse
This, as it happens, is the kind of big-league violator one could write folk songs about without being accused of over-dramatizing.
Posted inMaine, Mark LaFlamme
Every hiker you encounter on Katahdin has a story to tell | Column
She was 81 years old and climbed to Chimney Pond more times than she could remember, and I didn’t even get her name, writes Mark LaFlamme.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Death of homeless woman inspires vigils in Lewiston | Column
Though police say no foul play was involved, there are some who continue to believe the death of 36-year-old Caitlin Grautski is suspicious.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Lewiston’s new cop shop conjures memories and Park Street dreams | Column
While the top minds in the city were planning the new police department’s construction down to the finest detail, they seem to have forgotten one important matter, Mark LaFlamme writes.