In the moments after the blast at the Androscoggin Mill on Wednesday morning, many feared the worst.
Mark LaFlamme
Staff Writer
Mark LaFlamme is a Sun Journal reporter and weekly columnist. He's been on the nighttime police beat since 1994, which is just grand because he doesn't like getting out of bed before noon. Mark is the author of eight published novels and rides a dual sport motorcycle everywhere he goes. Unless it's winter, in which case he just sulks a lot.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News
‘One to remember’: Storm causes chaos across region
In Auburn, falling trees took down power lines and four poles in the area of Hotel Road and Lake Street during Thursday’s fast and furious snow storm. Two hours later in Lewiston, a tree came down on a propane tank while another crashed down onto a trailer and a third onto a car.
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‘So happy!’ Larry Lord is going home
The building supervisor severely burned in the Farmington propane explosion is being discharged Friday.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
‘12 days of the worst illness I have ever experienced’ – A COVID-19 survivor’s story
‘If you cannot appreciate the major risk you are putting yourself, your loved ones or your neighbors in by not following these parameters, you are so very wrong.’ – Nicole Boivin
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Turner woman killed in Auburn crash
Jessica Faunce suffered multiple injuries when her car went off Route 4.
Posted inHealth, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, News
Coronavirus case confirmed at Bates College
LEWISTON — A case of COVID-19 has been confirmed at Bates College, school officials announced Thursday night. Although, officials didn’t specify whether the patient is a student or faculty, he or she was said to be at home in self-isolation. “We became aware of this case today,” Bates President Clayton Spencer wrote on the school […]
Posted inCops & Courts, News
Teen crashed his car into Auburn store after chase, police say
The 15-year-old driver is taken to Long Creek Youth Development Center for an unrelated warrant.
Posted inCops & Courts, Lewiston-Auburn, News
Two days, two hatchet attacks in Lewiston
Lewiston police say a man was bleeding after he was struck by a hatchet during a fight Wednesday night. In an unrelated incident Thursday afternoon, another man with a hatchet reportedly threatened a tow truck driver in Lewiston.
Posted inMaine, News
Six people injured in fire that destroyed Rumford apartment buildings
Witnesses at the scene say several buildings collapsed on Hancock Street in Rumford.
Posted inMaine, Uncategorized
New exhibit in Lewiston focuses on horror of child labor
‘All Work and No Play’ opening Thursday features photos by ground-breaking photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine.