DEAR SUN SPOTS: Please ask your readers to consider volunteering for SeniorsPlus. SeniorsPlus needs volunteers to assist in our dining sites. By giving a few hours serving, setting and cleaning up you can serve seniors in Lewiston-Auburn, Leeds and Lisbon. Dining sites provide socialization as well as a nutritious meal. Please give the best you […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I just want to set the record straight. Many folks and businesses donate to Good Shepherd Food-Bank, which is wonderful. The thing they don’t realize is that local food banks do not get most of this free. They have to pay GSFB 16 cents per pound for it. I am asking you […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I am spending considerable time in Quebec because of family obligations there. I would like to improve my French to be able to better communicate with Francophones with no English. I understand they make up 60 percent of the population. Do you know of a French language publication in Maine I could […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I am seeking some information from Sun Spots or from someone knowing about whisky, vodka and gin. If the seal is not broken, how long can you keep it before it goes bad? Thank you. — Dom, South Paris ANSWER: The consensus online is that unopened distilled hard liquor such as those […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I appreciate all I’ve learned from your column over the years, very helpful. My request is if anyone has an Upwards game by Milton Bradley. I am looking for the large size. The small one is 9 inches on its face, but it is the next size board — maybe 10 inches […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: With your vast knowledge of things, is there anyone in the Lewiston-Auburn area who repairs VCRs? Thank you. — Karl, Greene ANSWER: Sun Spots does not deserve your high praise, as she has no good answer to your question. Many electronic devices made these days seem to be designed to be disposable. […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Could you find out why Mt. Hope Cemetery on Mt. Hope Avenue has the gate locked on Saturdays? I’ve been there four or five times to visit my husband’s grave and can’t get in. I called and was told it would be taken care of, but I went today and it was […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Liberty Rebekah Lodge 94 wishes to get the news out to high school seniors and college undergraduates who would like to attend an accredited Maine institution and pursue a registered nursing degree that the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs of Maine have a nurses training award program called the Ellen F. Washburn Nurses […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Could you please find out what happened to the CBS “Early Show” team of Harry Smith, Maggie Rodriguez and Dave the weatherman? Why are they not there anymore and where did they go? They have a new team, but it is not the same. Julie Chang left the show and is doing […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: The Lewiston High School Art Department and black-and-white photography program is seeking donations of film cameras, both manual and point and shoot. This is a very popular program, and we are always looking to collect working cameras for our students. We are also in need of some darkroom equipment. We want to […]