DEAR SUN SPOTS: Your readers have been most helpful in providing me with information over the past few weeks. I have just one more request (for now). The Franco-American Collection at USM’s Lewiston-Auburn College would be interested in hearing from anyone who can talk to us about the prohibition era in Maine (i.e., before 1933) […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: In one week recently I received two phone calls. The first said they had a package containing a check for $2,700 made out to me. It boiled down that I had to pay a small insurance payment to get it. The second call was from a woman with a heavy accent, who […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Do you have a list of people who repair wooden chairs? I have some kitchen table chairs that need regluing. I’m think of the Oxford-Norway-South Pair area but would be willing to go further. I read your column daily. You are a wonderful resource for lots of people. — Vickie Rogers, Otisfield ANSWER: […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Can you advise on what a citizen should do if he/she witnesses an obvious drug deal being transacted on public property within the Twin Cities? Just ignore it, or is this something that the police would like a heads-up on? — Curious via email ANSWER: Sun Spots posed this query to representatives […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Two years go my wife and I were riding around the countryside and came across a several-acre field full of sunflowers. We have tried many times to find it again to take pictures with no luck. We think it was in the Turner-Buckfield-Sumner area but are not sure. Can anyone out there […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: While in Florida this past winter I learned how to play pickleball. I would like to find some people the in Paris-Norway or Lewiston-Auburn area who would like to play on a regular basis.  If interested, please email or call me. — [email protected], 207-240-5144 ANSWER: For readers who, like Sun Spots, have […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Could you please find out for me the words to a song a lady sang at our Relay For Life get-together on June 13 at Oxford Hills High School. I had never heard it before, and it was so sad. Some of the words to it are: “Please don’t go. I need […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: You have been very helpful. Thank you for all you do. I have a ceramic figurine of a white unicorn, about 12 inches tall. The tip of its horn broke off in the mid-1990s. I was wondering if there is a place in the Lewiston-Auburn area that could fix it for me. […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Recently there have been several letters in Sun Spots pertaining to tours offered by TourBUSters/Great Escapes of Falmouth. On June 30 WGME-TV presented an investigative report concerning financial difficulties TourBUSters (now Great Escapes) has been having. Specifically, people were interviewed who reported that their reserved tours (to Nashville) were canceled. They were promised […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Boy Scout Troop 121 will be having a yard sale and bottle drive from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, July 12, at the United Methodist Church at 439 Park Ave. in Auburn. Troop 121 is accepting donations of items in good condition including jewelry, glassware, tools, games and toys. They will […]