DEAR SUN SPOTS: I am a personal care assistant with 34 years’ experience and am looking to care for people in their homes. I clean homes while I’m there. I also have a home with extra rooms and am looking for a roommate. I advertised, but no one responded. I am very desperate. I have […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Thank you for a great column. I have a question regarding all the fees and funds I am being charged on my Oxford Networks bill. I am also wondering if they are mandatory or if I can opt out of them. These fees add up to an extra $13.02 per month. This […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Some time back the Citylink bus used to go up Turner Street in Auburn and pick up people at the Auburn Commons apartment complex. But that has since stopped. My mom is elderly and used to take the bus to the malls and Walmart. Now she has to take a taxi, which […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I used to be a newspaper carrier for the Sun Journal. My route was in Auburn and included the area from Great Falls Plaza to North River Road to the Center Street area, Bobbin Mills Estates, Turner/Mayfield/Summer streets, to Western and Minot avenues, Cleveland and Marshall area, to Amberly Way, Briarcliff Knoll, […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: My wife recently lost her diamond wedding ring in our kitchen. She had taken it off while cooking and placed it on a kitchen counter. She totally forgot about it until the following day. We suspect that at some point the ring may have been accidentally knocked onto the floor. We have […]

GOOD MORNING, MRS SUN SPOTS: Being the great detective you are, I have another inquiry. We received a Roku box for Christmas. This is connected to Netflix. After years of no cable and zero reception, this thing is amazing; you can watch wonderful movies and earlier episodes of many TV shows. We have become totally […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: What is it with these restaurants? We went to a restaurant last fall, and they had fresh green beans. I told the waiter I liked mine cooked good. The waiter said he would tell the chef to cook mine longer. When we got our meals, the beans were so hard and rubbery […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: The Woman’s Hospital Association at Central Maine Medical Center is celebrating 125 years of service to the Lewiston-Auburn community. We are trying to find the descendants of the founding women of WHA, who were alive during the 1888-1894 period. Mrs. Jonathan L.H. Cobb (Abigail Morrell), Mrs. George Haskell (Mary), Mrs. Nelson Howard […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I’m trying to locate an organization that takes used eyeglasses. The Lions Club used to have a collection box at Hannaford in Lewiston, but the box is no longer there. Can you help me? — Maureen, [email protected] ANSWER: Sun Spots emailed her usual contact for the Lewiston Lions Club, Maryann, who told […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: On Nov. 20 someone asked about sleigh rides. We didn’t know at that time if we were going to have one this year. But we’ve been working on it, and now with a big snowfall we will have one, and it may be the biggest yet, with about 15 teams participating. The […]