DEAR SUN SPOTS: Thanks for all you do for us! You seem to find out things we cannot find for ourselves. My question: Last year a young man with a large backpack appeared at our church looking for food and shelter. He was “passing through” town, seemed a bit disoriented, and perhaps borderline retarded mentally. […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Boy Scout Troop 121 of Auburn is again collecting Christmas trees this holiday season. In the first year, the Scouts of Troop 121 collected more than 80 trees in the city of Auburn. This year the troop will be expanding program to the residents of Lewiston. While the cities of Lewiston and […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Re your Dec. 18 column, some aspects of searches are at the expense of the taxpayer, but the Maine Warden Service in not paid with tax dollars but for the most part by the license fees of the sportsmen of the state of Maine, to which many of the subjects of these […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: If someone finds a pair of sunglasses in a maroon case , blue metal frames with dark lenses in the Kmart parking lot or inside Kmart, They are prescription sunglasses, and I really would like to have them back. If found, please call 713-0703. Thank you. — Natalie Kyllonen, [email protected] DEAR SUN […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: On Route 2 in the Jefferson, N.H., area, a mile or two before you reach Six Gun City, there is a stone tower. Can you please find out what it is, and what was its purpose? — Just Wondering, No Town ANSWER: According to firelookout.org, “Built around 1897 it is reported to […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: My nephew “Bill” has a son, “Jim.” Is Jim my great-nephew or grandnephew? Is Jim’s daughter my great-grandniece or my great-great-niece or are the two titles interchangeable? — Just Wondering, No Town ANSWER: Sun Spots could not find any definitive rule on this topic. The terms appear to be interchangeable. One posting […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Our family watches “Wheel of Fortune” all the time. We frequently see the contestants spin a bankrupt over and over during a single show, but we have never seen Pat Sajak get a bankrupt when he spins the final spin. He doesn’t appear to spin the wheel faster or harder at any […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: This year, as in years past, the Telstar chapter of the National Honor Society is sponsoring a Coats and Toys for Kids Drive in the Bethel area. We really need everyone’s help to have success. Acceptable donations for the coat drive can include used coats and winter wear that is in good […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I wrote back on Oct. 3 to ask where I could buy whole peas to make pea soup? We love to use whole peas instead of split peas. Did you find where we could buy the whole peas? Thank you. — Pea Soup Lover via email ANSWER: Sun Spots is sorry, but […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I find it very strange that people disappear. I just read in a September 1979 Yankee magazine the story of a little boy, Kurt Newton, who disappeared in the Maine woods, then a little girl, Ayla Reynolds, who disappeared from her father’s home in Waterville, and this year a woman from another […]