DEAR SUN SPOTS: For No Name on Oct. 19, I have two potato doughnut recipes. Each one calls for 4 cups of flours. Thanks for the help you are to your readers. — No Name, Jay DEAR SUN SPOTS: In response to the request for the amount of flour for a potato doughnut recipe. Out […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Could you tell me if know of anyone who makes jester hats for children? Thank you. — No Name via email ANSWER: Sun Spots has no one in her Rolodex under jester hats. There are numerous websites with jester hats for sale, including at anytimecostumes.com. Amazon.com advertises children’s versions, although they aren’t […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: For a long time I’ve been wondering if there are any laws in Maine regarding the disposal of our loved one’s cremains (ashes). Can one spread their ashes on the ground at the cemetery on our plot? The only one I could think of getting this information from was you. You seem […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I am a former employee of Eastern Express Inc. in Terre Haute, Ind., that went bankrupt on May 3, 1977. I am searching to see if I have any monies due. Thank you. — Charles C. Sheeder, Lady Lake, Fla., [email protected] ANSWER: There is a federal government agency, the Pension Benefit Guaranty […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Greetings, and thank you for the fun, fascinating and helpful daily column! Someone inquired about bagpipe lessons. A conversation overheard at a yard sale: Hall-Dale School in Farmingdale has a weekly class in bagpiping. A call to the school might give more information. I hope this helps. — Greene reader via email […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Please help me. I am getting to that dreaded age and beginning to wonder where I would go if I needed help with my living situation. What can you tell me about assisted living, nursing and boarding homes, and whatever else for people who cannot live at home anymore? Which in Lewiston […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I am looking for someone in Maine, New Hampshire or Massachusetts who can repair 35 mm cameras. I have two nice cameras but had to stop using them due to a light leak in one and a frozen rewind lever. I love the picture capability of a 35 mm and I would […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Regarding the use of mothballs, I’d like to offer an alternative. A few years back someone suggested that I use dryer sheets instead when storing anything. So I tried it with clothes, vehicles (we store two vehicles every winter in our barn) and a friend’s travel trailer. How nice to have no […]

Editor’s note: The column below has been revised to identify Angus King as a wind power developer, and to note that Maine is an electricity exporter. DEAR SUN SPOTS: My question concerns wind power and how it benefits me and the rest of Maine once it is installed and functioning. I realize that during construction […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I was wondering if there is a way for me to get printouts of old stories done on the Chipman Farm in Poland. I can distinctly remember a photo of our strawberries that was on the front page once, and I would love to have that picture. I can’t seem to find […]