The Sun Journal again asked readers to tell us about spectacular Christmas displays in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties. Here are their picks. (Also, L-A streets worth cruising include Grove and Montello in Lewiston and Goff and Gamage in Auburn.)

AUBURN: 119 Broad St. (corner of Sixth Avenue and Broad)

Owners: Pauline and Robert L’Italien

Number of lights: “A lot. I have a day care. It’s for the kids.”

Other features: Four sides of large home in lights, Santa sleigh and reindeer over garage, yard with fence lit with reindeer, trees. Home next door also brightly decked out.

Monthly cost of electricity: $100 to $150 more

AUBURN: 334 Park Ave.

Owners: Gary and Pamela Adams

Number of lights: 8,000

Other features: Both sides of home on Park Avenue and Lake Street decked out in lights, also a Nativity scene, snowman, Snoopy Santa, Grinch blowup, deer, assorted trees in lights.

Monthly cost of electricity: $75

AUBURN: 24 Fulton St.

Owners: Andy and Rachel Pratt

Number of lights: 8,000

Other features: Sleigh, reindeer, Christmas music piping across the lawn, occasional visits by Santa and Mrs. Claus

Monthly cost of electricity: Unknown

AUBURN: 14 Taylor St.

Owners: Robert and Ina Brainerd

Number of lights: Not sure

Other features: Homemade wooden decorations Robert made (one is more than 60 years old that he made with his father); Christmas characters include toy soldiers, waving snowman, Santa and sleigh, deer. The Christmas display “has been a family tradition,” he said.

Cost of electricity: About 50 percent more

BUCKFIELD: 93 Darnit Road, Buckfield

Owners: The Kimball family

Number of lights: Around 2,000

Other features: Nativity scene, house all decorated in lights, snowmen, inflatable polar bears and seals, big snowman, oversized Christmas present, Santa and reindeer climbing up cathedral ceiling indoors (visible through glass windows), Santa on wood pile.

Monthly cost of electricity: $100 more

DURHAM: 1641 Royalsborough Road (off Rte. 136)

Owners: Sonny and Gail Sylvester

Number of lights: 26,200

Other features: Winter wonderland of white lights spread over 3.5 acres, featured in 2004 Sun Journal. Displays done in clusters, includes sleigh and seven reindeer, reindeer under Christmas tree; more deer; a moose; fencing all wrapped in lights, a big snowman on the porch. Daily from 4:30 to 9 p.m.

Monthly cost of electricity: $400 more

EAST LIVERMORE: 58 Campground Road (off Rte. 133)

Owner: Darlene Cote

Number of lights: “I don’t know. Thousands.”

Other features: Lights all over house and garage, 11 blowups including the Grinch, snowmen, a dolphin, Santas, big dogs and Teddy bear, train.

Monthly cost of electricity: $200 more

GREENE: 12 Daggett Hill Road

Owner: Elmer and Patty Berry

Number of lights: 15,000 plus

Other features: A car-stopper. Moving train, Santa in sleigh with reindeer, tin soldier, 12 inflatable 8-foot characters including the Grinch and dog, two Pooh bears, several Santas, puppies, polar bear, Santa in chimney.

Monthly cost of electricity: $400 more

GREENE: 17 South River Road (near Greene/Lewiston town line, off Rte. 202 and Daggett Hill Road)

Owners: Dan and Rachel D’Auteuil

Number of lights: 50,000 to 60,000

Other features: 15 or 16 big blowups, Nativity scene, 12 to 15 white-light deer that move, 12 twig trees, coil trees, candy canes, rope lights, Santa on the roof, icicle lights. Another car stopper.

Monthly cost of electricity: $250 more

LEWISTON: 15 and 17 Bellegarde Ave. (corner of Russell Avenue)

Owner: Thomas Bellegarde

Number of lights: 40,000 plus

Other features: Big. Display involves three homes, takes up nearly a block, includes inflatables, a “field” of Christmas trees on Russell Avenue; artsy decorated tree (green-lit trunk, red-lit branches) on Bellegarde; lights strung on three houses; Santa hands out candy canes on some nights, weather permitting.

Monthly cost of electricity: About $750 more LEWISTON: 10 Ridge Road (off Webster, then off Maple Ridge)

Owners: Priscilla and Del Gendron

Number of lights: About 7,500

Other features: A big snowman, Santa, a wooden horse pulling a wooden sled with wooden people, lit-up gazebo and sleigh with reindeer. Decorations on porch and in yard. Music plays for passing motorists.

Monthly cost of electricity: About $340 more

LEWISTON: 205 Old Webster Road

Owners: Alice and Jerry Vaillancourt

Number of lights: Thousands on house, garage, shrubs, 7 trees

Other features: Five snowmen, sleigh, four Santa Clauses, Mrs. Claus, deer, decorated wishing well, lampposts.

Monthly cost of electricity: About $100 more

LISBON: 27 Lisbon St.

Owners: Bob Banach

Number of lights: Around 2,500

Other features: Homemade wooden decorations including Santa, snowman, reindeer, Christmas tree, Nutcracker and holiday pink flamingo.

Monthly cost of electricity: Unknown

LIVERMORE: 64 Pike Road and 41 Pike Road

Owners: Marty and Tracy Richards; and John and Jessica Tessier

Number of lights: Thousands on each house

Other features: Tessier home: lights cover everything, including fence, four-piece holographic train; big Santa, deer, walk lined with candy canes. Richards home: Candy canes, Santa and reindeer, human-size snowmen

Monthly cost of electricity: About $100 more per house

MECHANIC FALLS: 28 Patterson Road (off Libbey Road, off Rte. 121)

Owners: Robert and Margaret Rivard

Number of lights: 11,000 and growing

Other features: House and garage outlined in lights, “stars chasing stars” hang from the eaves, driveway pine trees looped in red and green lights, Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus in front of house, decorated lampposts, front door “wrapped” as gift, lit church and schoolhouse, snowman blowups, reindeer and sled with three grandchildren’s names.

Monthly cost of electricity: $100 more

OXFORD: 274 Gore Road

Owners: Wayne and Pam Cox

Number of lights: 2,627. (They counted.)

Other features: Lit plastic Santa sleigh and reindeer suspended from a steel cable 12 to 14 feet above the ground. (Wayne, a mechanic, figured out how to hang and light the sleigh using several extension cords. He drilled a hole in a deer to insert a red bulb so Rudolph’s nose would glow.)

Monthly cost of electricity: $20 more

WILTON: Rte. 204 (by Gould’s Service Station)

Owners: Shirley and Wayne Gilbert

Number of lights: More than 5,200

Other features: Long driveway lined with lights and toy soldiers; in yard, Santa with sleigh, four blowups including Santa, snow globe, Grinch, snowman; house and garage done in striking, blue lights.

Monthly cost of electricity: $100 to $125 more