Cony’s Landon Foster leaps but can’t snag a line drive off the bat of a Lawrence hitter during a game Monday, May 2, at Morton Field in Augusta. Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal

A group of boys play a pickup basketball game Saturday at the North Street courts in Waterville. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel

Gardiner High School’s Taylor Takatsu (14) jumps on home plate after hitting a homer against Messalonskee High School in Oakland on Thursday, April 29. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel

Catcher Alissa Michaud, center, and pitcher Alexis Michaud of Maranacook Community High School cheer Saturday, April 30, as teammates score against Old Orchard Beach during a sixth-inning rally in a softball game at the David McPhedran Athletic Fields in Readfield. Alexis is back playing softball again after battling cancer. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Ann Dorney, 68, top, walks away from a vernal pool along a grassy trail that leads to Malbon Woods at Parsons Family Preserve in Skowhegan on Sunday, May 1. Dorney, a retired family doctor, is re-wilding the 27-acre preserve. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Oakland Town Councilor Don Borman listens Tuesday night as the proposed budget is introduced during the annual Town Meeting at the Messalonskee High School Performing Arts Center in Oakland. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel

Truman Hillier, 7, right, and his first cousin, Everett Howard, 5, warm up Sunday, May 1, after a May Day sprint through the sprinklers at the Hillier’s home in Monmouth. Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal

After giving a speech, Sen. Susan Collins tosses camouflage ball caps with an embroidered elephant on the front on Friday April 29, at the Maine Republican Party convention in the Augusta Civic Center. Staff photo by Joe Phelan

Goats climb onto volunteer Joshua Vashon on Sunday, May 1, before Vashon and other volunteers directed goat yoga during the ShineOnCass Animal Baby Shower & PJ Party at Hart to Hart Farm & Education Center in Albion. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel