Whitefield Elementary School students take collective bites out of apples Thursday during a celebration of the locally grown fruit.

Hallowell firefighters Lt. Roy Girard, left, Capt. Richard Clark, Chief Michael Grant and Ryan Girard display a trophy Wednesday that the volunteer company received Sept. 14, for exhibiting the department’s Tiger engine at the 50th annual Maine State Federation of Firefighters Convention in Ellsworth.

Gardiner firefighters wait to extinguish a blaze Monday during a training exercise at a Gardiner home donated to the city.

Raymond Fecteau, left, gives Adriana Yeaton, center, some advice on where to throw the metal ball, called a boule, during her pétanque game against Ian Gifford, right, on Friday at Farrington School in Augusta.