DEAR SUN SPOTS: On Saturday, May 22, Danville Junction Grange, located at 15 Grange Street in Auburn, will be holding an outdoor yard sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will be many raffles, baked goods, jewelry, plants and lots of “treasures” for sale.  There will also be a limited amount of tables for […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: You have done it again! I want to thank you so much for publishing my letter in search of a 1970 Rumford yearbook (Apr. 29 Sun Spots). I’d like to send a very special shout-out of thanks to Pete, Christine, Kymberle, and June who all responded, and which resulted in June’s surprising […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: In the April 29 Sun Spots, someone was asking about a 1970 Rumford High School yearbook. Well, I recently discovered a site when I was looking for an old yearbook. If you Google “high school Maine past yearbooks” it brings you to a site where all the states are listed so click […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS:  On Saturday, April 17, a men’s leather jacket fell out of our car on the corner of Pleasant Street and Scribner Blvd. in Lewiston. Inside the pockets are items that are important to us, but of no value to the finder. We have posted a request on Facebook and Lewiston Rocks sites, […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I would love to find a 1970 Rumford High School Yearbook for my sister’s birthday in May. She had an apartment fire years ago, and her yearbook was burned to ashes. It is my heartfelt hope that someone has a yearbook which I can borrow to copy, or know where I can […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: What has happened to the spring peepers? We live near a large bog which has always been very active with peepers, but we aren’t hearing them anymore. Also, we don’t see many grass frogs either. — No name, Poland Spring ANSWER: I haven’t been hearing the peepers at my house yet either […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: On April 10, I went to Food City in the Turner Plaza on Route 4 to get groceries. An employee helped me put my groceries in the trunk and a 5½- by 8-inch clipboard with papers clipped to it must have fallen out of my purse in the parking lot. I checked […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: My mom and I can’t be together on Mother’s Day this year for the first time ever. I want to do something special for her, but I know she’ll scold me if I spend a lot and she doesn’t like a lot of material things anyway. She’s a minimalist. I always like […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: The Androscoggin River Watershed Council is seeking volunteers to do water quality monitoring on the Androscoggin River this summer. The sampling is operated as part of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection’s Voluntary River Monitoring Program. The process is quite simple. Instruments are calibrated in the field, a probe from the instrument […]

DEAR SUN SPOTS: The Lewiston-Auburn Rotary Club is having its second document shredding event from 9 a.m. to noon May 1 at 800 Center St. (John Murphy Homes) in Auburn. We will again offer secure, no-contact shredding for your documents and other items you need to dispose of securely. We are asking for a $10 […]