Bus driver Heidi Laflamme sanitizes the bus she drives following the afternoon run Tuesday at the School Administrative District 11 bus yard in Gardiner. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal Buy this Photo.

A cross-country skier glides through Quarry Road Trails in Waterville on Thursday. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel Buy this Photo

Colby Northrup replaces the stoop to the stalls he cleaned with his father, Mathew, at their family’s dairy farm in Whitefield. After milking Tuesday, the Northrups were cleaning and anticipating an early release of the cows for grazing in the fields this spring. Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal Buy this Photo

The Gardiner Tigers bench celebrate a fourth-quarter basket on the way to beating Lawrence for the Class A/B central Maine basketball tournament championship Friday, March 12, in Gardiner. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal Buy this Photo

Cony’s Kiara Henry and Gardiner’s Lizzy Gruber jump at the net during a volleyball game Wednesday in Augusta. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal Buy this Photo

Winslow firefighter Sam Solmitz stands in the middle of a charred garage Tuesday on Taylor Avenue in Winslow. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel Buy this Photo

Students at the school at Happy Farm in Whitefield listen Tuesday to their classmates yell initials of words they have to guess during a game of “Here We Come.” The 15 Amish children enrolled in the school, according to teacher Ada Kroyer, learn how to associate words with sounds while playing in the woods. Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal Buy this Photo

Alesha Davie receives a St. Patrick’s Day Guinness on Wednesday from bartender Sam Spaulding at Mainely Brews Restaurant & Brewhouse in downtown Waterville. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel Buy this Photo

Server Annie Chmura, right, works with dinner patrons Nancy Marshall, center, and Julene Gervais during the soft opening Monday, March 15, at Front & Main restaurant at the Lockwood Hotel in downtown Waterville. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel Buy this Photo

Candy surrounds a shopper Sunday, March 14, at Incense & Peppermints Candy & Gift Shop in downtown Waterville. The soundtrack to the classic 1971 movie “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” and other “candy” musical favorites are played at the store. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel Buy this Photo