DEAR SUN SPOTS: For 10 years we have used ExploreMaine and Mid-Maine for our dial-up Internet service and now have constant disconnection and “cannot find host” problems. FairPoint upgraded our phone line, but it didn’t help. Does Sun Spots know if other dial-up users started having these problems about six weeks ago? Trying to determine […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I moved to Texas in the middle of August to be near my daughter, a registered nurse at Baylor Hospital, because my wife, Betty, has ALS. I enjoy your column very much. I have the Sun Journal sent to me to keep up on the news in Lewiston-Auburn and the towns in […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: In reference to the enclosed Aug. 8 story about poultry plants, would you find out just what is done with the chicken “carcass” after the “diseased or damaged” parts are cut from the chicken mentioned. It would be an eye-opener for me and probably many other people. You do so much good […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I have a gift certificate for Shear Madness Hair Salon that was on Center Street in Auburn. They have gone out of business. I have tried to call the phone number several times, and have been able to leave a message, but no one calls me back. I have sent an e-mail […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I’m a great fan of HGTV’s “House Hunters.” Are the people buying homes and the real estate agents the actual buyers and sellers or are they people hired to play the parts? Also, a few years ago, the Sun Journal had weekly columns about antiques and collectibles and their current appraisers. I […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Does the new “distracted-driver law” specifically exclude cell phone use during driving? Thank you. — David, Auburn ANSWER: Maine’s new distracted driving law, as explained by the bill’s author, state Sen. Bill Diamond, D-Windham, states that doing anything that takes a driver’s concentration off the road and could potentially cause an accident […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Would you please find out if they are still holding the farmers market at the corner of Main and Academy streets in Auburn on Fridays? I’ve gone the last two weeks on Friday and did not see any sign of a market. Thank you. — No Name, Auburn ANSWER: Unfortunately, that farmers […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I hope that you can find a satisfactory answer to my question: A short time ago my husband and I had to go to Portland. We got on the Maine Turnpike at Auburn, paid the $1.75 toll at Gray, and got off at Westbrook. Coming home we got on the Turnpike at […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I am looking to buy Green Mountain potatoes for this winter. Does anyone have them available? Thanks. — No Name, Now Town ANSWER: According to www.mainerec.com, the Green Mountain potato is the potato that made the state of Maine famous, even though it was named after the mountains of Vermont and was […]

Dear Sun Spots: The What Not Shop in Rumford sells secondhand clothing, jewelry and small household items. The proceeds benefit the Adult Activity Center Day Program at Hope Association, a nonprofit agency that serves the developmentally disabled. We are in need of a display case such as you see in a jewelry store. The size […]