I am wondering what the guidelines are. I am told they have changed from last year. Thanking you in advance. Keep up the good work. — No Name in Lewiston. ANSWER: The state of Maine shares this Property Tax Fairness Credit summary: Eligible Maine taxpayers may receive a portion of the property tax or rent […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I read your column every day. This is my first time writing to you. Do you have in your Rollodex or know of anyone in the Rumford area who works on electric recliners? I pushed too hard on the back and broke the ties that hold the back up straight. I will […]

The website at www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces needs our help in finding photos of these Vietnam vets from Lewiston-Auburn who lost their lives in the war: Reginald Nicholas of Auburn; Harold E. Walker, Jr. of Auburn; Harold G. Breton of Lewiston; Normand C. Deschaine of Lewiston; Roland P. Guerette of Lewiston; Richard W. Rossignol of Lewiston; Charles H. […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: A few days ago, the Sun Journal published an article in its Community News section about the Meadowview Senior Tenant Council and their upcoming activities and trips. I did get a few phone call messages, but one of them, I couldn’t even make out the name and address, while the other message […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Calling all musicians! My name is Ken Tyler. I am a retired director of the United States Air Force Academy Drum and Bugle Corps and I am looking for musicians. I am trying to see if there is interest out there to march in an all-state marching band. We are in the […]

Which Sun Spots logo do you like better? DEAR SUN SPOTS: What is the history of this Sun Spots column? — Curious, via email. ANSWER: Sun Spots has been asked this question in the past and has referred to the previously published answers to that question. It is reported that this column began in the […]

HELLO SUN SPOTS: The new billing from the local cable company has a nearly 300 percent increase for digital adapters along with increases in “taxes and fees and surcharges.” How do we know who gets these increases? I would like to hear from Sunspots’ vast readership of their experiences with the local dish companies. It […]

Last year, 255 gowns were donated to WLU and 55 gowns were given away for free at the event. WLU also donated a dozen gowns to another local nonprofit, Tri-County Mental Health’s Social Learning Center, for its clients’ yearly formal dance. At last year’s event, 65 girls attended and registered for prizes such as gift […]

ANSWER: Sun Spots did some research and learned that maple bricks were popular in the days when transporting white sugar was difficult and expensive and so these maple bricks were used instead of white sugar. Sun Spots found two companies that advertise maple bricks in their product line, one in New York and one in […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: My father, Richard Theberge, died Feb. 28, 1968, in a plane crash at the Auburn-Lewiston Airport. My siblings and I are interested in visiting the crash site. We are searching for anyone who may have responded to the crash or lived nearby at the time of the crash. Lt. Donald Delisle of […]