Fairgoers Everleigh Johnson, 6, and grandmother Sonia Johnson ride the carousel together Thursday during the opening day of the Skowhegan State Fair. The 10-day fair is scheduled to run through Saturday, Aug. 21. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Remone Williams speaks Monday, Aug. 9, with is daughter, Ariah, 5, while pushing her and her brother, Kainan, 4, on the swing set at the east side boat landing in Augusta. A barber who owns Millennium Kutz in Augusta, Williams says he tries to spend Sunday and Monday playing with his children when his shop is closed. Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal

Cyclists and walkers share the Two Cent Bridge on Wednesday over the Kennebec River at RiverWalk at Head of Falls in Waterville. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Wayne Robichaud, center, and co-workers use zip ties Monday, Aug. 9, while securing a sign to a fence that surrounds the construction site to the new Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts at Colby College in Waterville. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Jenni Tilton-Flood loads sunflowers into a basket Sunday, Aug. 8, after cutting the plants in a field at the family’s roadside sweet corn stand in Clinton. Tilton-Flood said she was restocking the very popular item at the stand. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Skowhegan baserunner Braden Saucier dives safely back to first base ahead of a pickoff attempt Saturday, Aug. 7, at Morton Field in Augusta. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Painter Blaikie Hines discusses his work Saturday, Aug. 7, during the bicentennial kickoff celebration in Richmond. Although it has begun celebrating, the town won’t officially turn 200 until Feb. 10, 2023. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Treasurer Roger Shorty offers a tour Saturday, Aug. 7, of the remodeled Victor Grange in Fairfield Center. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel

Penelope Reilly, of Portland, fills a container Sunday, Aug. 8, from the spring operated by the Vienna Historical Society on Kimball Pond Road in Vienna. Dozens of people refresh their water supply on the natural tap that has been open to public consumption since 1886. Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal

A Monarch butterfly goes to suck pollen from a plant in Gardiner along the Kennebec River on Monday, Aug. 9. Flower beds abutting the river are cultivated by the brigade of volunteer gardeners have become a natural magnet for bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal