DEAR SUN SPOTS: With COVID-19 still going strong, I have face masks and face shields available. The schools are going to start so I want parents to get their students ready. I also have a bag full of bobbins of thread for crafts and a bag full of empty pill bottles. One lady used to […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I noticed in the June 29 Sun Spots column that someone was asking about where to get COVID-19 testing done. You referenced the Maine Urgent Care on Sabattus Street. You should also know that testing is being done at a couple of St. Mary’s Health healthcare locations. There is a clinic on […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I am hoping to find a contractor to wallpaper a bedroom and a mason who works with thin veneer for an outside wall in the Oxford area. Are there any prospects out there that will provide estimates? Please call 402-4111. — Scott, no town ANSWER: Readers, I am sending out an SOS […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: Thank you for being such a big supporter of public libraries. A book sale like no other is going on at the Turner Public Library. In March, as implications of COVID-19 became clear, we realized we wouldn’t be able to hold our Annual Book Sale in the usual fashion. We couldn’t consider […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I have a sewing machine that I no longer use and would like to give it to someone. Due to COVID-19, many are making face masks. If anyone would like this machine, it’s theirs for the taking. My telephone number is 784-1817. Thank you, Sun Spots, for all the help you give. […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I live at Roak Block and we have a wonderful garden this year. The water spigot is a good distance from the gardens and hand-carrying jugs of water would be so much easier if we had a wagon. If someone out there has a wagon they are no longer using, we would […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: On June 4, I went to the Auburn Post Office on Rodman Road at 11:30 a.m. then directly to Dollar General on Minot Avenue.  When I got home I realized my necklace was missing. It’s very sentimental since it was a gift to me in the ’60s. The necklace is a round […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I want to locate the gentleman who taught feng shui at the Auburn high school a number of years ago. I am also interested in finding others who have experience with these skills. — Jeanne, Auburn ANSWER: Here is another quest for Sun Spots readers to assist with. Does anyone remember the […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I work for a local school department, but during the summer I’m usually self-employed. Now that the school year is over I find that, like so many others, I have no work. When I entered my Social Security number to file for unemployment for my summer job, the state’s computer thought that […]