DEAR SUN SPOTS: I am looking for a service where someone can come to my home once a week to take pictures of items I would like to sell locally online. They would probably only need to be here for about an hour at a time. I have a barn and house full of items […]
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St. Mary’s Nutrition Center thanks devoted volunteers
DEAR SUN SPOTS: We at St. Mary’s Nutrition Center would like to extend our gratitude and appreciation to our volunteers, longstanding and new, who helped and continue to help in crucial ways during this unusual time, specifically in our Food Pantry and the Community Garden. These last several months have marked the engagement of many volunteers in a completely new […]
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Veteran’s family members sought so service medals can be presented
DEAR SUN SPOTS: I read your column every day and am turning to you for some very badly needed help in finding someone. My sister, Donna Lee Dagneau passed away in Florida this past month and I’m attempting to find her husband’s children so we can give his service medals and other items to them. […]
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Finding lost email could require the services of a computer techie
DEAR SUN SPOTS: I am reaching out to you once again looking for help. I am looking for a “computer detective” who can retrieve a message that was sent to me. It was not SPAM and the message was definitely directed to me. I need help to retrieve it. I have reached out to local computer businesses, […]
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Marijuana businesses drawing complaints about odor
DEAR SUN SPOTS: Can something be done about the odor that comes from every other big building around Maine now? We put limits on odor emissions from the local mills in the past. We now have to live with the odor from marijuana on a daily basis. Pot growers pushed for this business to pass […]
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Literacy Volunteers-Androscoggin asking for tutors and partners
DEAR SUN SPOTS: Literacy Volunteers-Androscoggin is seeking volunteers to serve as tutors, as well as English Conversation Partners virtually. We will provide the training to use Zoom as a one-on-one teaching tool, as well as the basic training to be a successful tutor or English conversation partner. All of our training and tutoring is provided […]
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Poland Football Boosters holding spaghetti dinner fundraiser
DEAR SUN SPOTS: The Poland Football Boosters is having a drive-thru spaghetti and meatball dinner from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 21, at the Poland Excelsior Grange, 446 Harris Hill Road. The cost is $8 per plate or $25 for a family of four. All proceeds go toward youth and community betterment projects in […]
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Reader needs help identifying two photos from the 1920s or ’30s
DEAR SUN SPOTS: I wonder if Sun Spots readers might help me solve “the case of the unmarked photos.” They are two very pretty colorized photos in frames that look original. I inherited them many years ago. I had them rematted and have enjoyed looking at them for many years. I suspect these photos were […]
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Call-blocking tools can help in stopping unwanted, annoying phone calls
DEAR SUN SPOTS: You have helped many people and you do a great job. I don’t know if anything can be done to solve my frustration, but I hope I can get some answers. A couple of years ago, I wrote to you asking how to get on the “Do Not Call” list and you gave […]
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COVID-19 vaccination registration info available via phone and internet
DEAR SUN SPOTS: In the Jan. 19 Sun Spots, you state that a list of COVID-19 vaccination sites can be found through the following address; https://www.maine.gov/covid19/vaccines/vaccination-sites. I have attempted to reach this site several times over this past weekend and have been unsuccessful up to the moment, i.e. Jan. 31, 2021, at 2:55 p.m. It does […]