DEAR SUN SPOTS: I have been keeping track of all the monuments at the Veterans Memorial Park since 2003. I have also made a database in Microsoft Excel with all the veterans on all of the monuments, from one to 25, the latest one as of May 25, 2013. The database is interactive and as […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Regarding the old phone number on the hanger from a Rumford dry cleaner (May 22), these phone numbers were in use before the area’s phones had dials. In 1959 and the early 1960s I worked in a Rumford office that had 227-J as its phone number. Every time you picked up the […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: We read your column every day. Keep up the good work. We have another question. When was the ice palace in the park? We want the year. Thank you. — Ida, Lewiston ANSWER: Sun Spots’ colleague Ernie turned up a website, www.mainememory.net/artifact/6556/, with a photo of the ice palace and information provided by […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Your May 15 answer to the 83-year-old woman who lives in fear of her neighbors prompted me to ask something I’ve been wondering for some time. Some time ago I came across a car accident and called 911. I started to tell him about it and he interrupted me to demand my […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Here is a different question for you. It’s about a prepaid funeral. Mine is all paid for, and I’ve felt secure. However, I’ve been told that it’s not refundable and if that funeral home goes out of business for some reason, you’re out of all that money and there’s nothing you can […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: What would we do without you? You’ve helped us so much before, so I am back with a couple of requests. First, where can one buy DonnKenny pants for women’s/misses, which for years were available through the JC Penney catalog? These are pull-on and made from synthetic material. Second, is there someone […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: It was interesting to read the May 8 column and find mention of a Confederate soldier buried in Gray. Did you know there is also a Confederate soldier buried in Durham? I looked into the Durham story while writing the booklet, “Faces of the Civil War,” for the Androscoggin Historical Society (copies […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: The local Tri-Town Food Bank serving families in Poland, Mechanic Falls and Minot is having a fundraiser to renovate its present building. On June 29 we will host a juried art show at the scenic Poland Spring Inn on Route 26. We need artists to apply for 10- by 10-foot selling spaces. […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I wore my best suit to church on Mother’s Day, and someone noticed tiny holes in part of the coat. I must have thought the calendar said moth-ers day when I put that suit on! My question: Is there anyone who repairs moth holes in fabric? If so, please provide an address […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Since I like to be different I am going to ask you about something, and I hope this is the first inquiry of its kind. I have what I believe to be a very old coat hanger. It is made of a flat brown wood. It says Le Blanc Cleaners & Dyers, […]