MCI’s Charlotte Peasley, left, and Angela Boisvert run in the 100-meter hurdle prelims during the KVAC Small School track and field championships on Friday, May 24, on the Stadium Field track in Topsham. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Participants in the Memorial Day observance in Wayne hold their hands over their hearts while “The Star-Spangled Banner” is sung on Monday, May 27. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Hall-Dale shortstop Lucy Gray tags out Monmouth’s Madison Herr during a softball game Tuesday in Farmingdale. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

A young fisherman watches the water on the Kennebec River in Waterville on Tuesday. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Cony’s Abby Morrill cradles the ball through Messalonskee’s Zoey Gilbert (20) and Emily Hammond’s sticks during a girls lacrosse game Friday, May 24, in Oakland. Morrill scored her 100th career goal in the game. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel

Edward Little freshman Tommy LeBlanc competes in the pole vault during the KVAC large school track and field championships on Saturday, May 25, in Oakland. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel

Colby College graduate Sadé Greenidge, right, is hugged by Maeve Downes after Greenidge received her diploma during commencement in Waterville on Sunday, May 26. With the pair is Elly Hertz, at left. Hertz and Downes said they are Colby alums. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Gabrielle Yorgan strums a guitar and sings a Beatles song on Thursday at A Coffeehouse at 252 Main St. in Waterville. Yorgan is on staff at the coffeehouse. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Junelaine Moore waves a bubble wand during the Children’s Discovery Museum’s Fairies & Gnomes Festival at Viles Arboretum in Augusta on Saturday, May 25. Events included building gnome houses, fantasy face painting, music, craft projects and guided walks through the woods. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Jamie Pare, of West Gardiner, left, follows her daughter, Cora Pare, as they place flags in front of grave markers on Saturday, May 25, at Central Maine Veterans’ Cemetery on Mt. Vernon Road in Augusta. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal