Jordyn Pooler carries mushroom as her daughter Ember Duest, 7, holds her fishing pole before the girl practiced casting on Wednesday at the Coburn Park pond in Skowhegan. The pair from Skowhegan picked seven different types of mushrooms they’ll use for cooking and seasoning before they walked to the pond. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Ryan Cote cools off in the shade after mowing the Wiffle Ball field his sons play on at their home in Manchester. The family’s dogs Watson and Ziggy were hosting their neighbor, Spot, with occasional dashes beneath the sprinkler. The canines and Cote took a respite under the trees in the garden during 90 degree temperatures July 6 before resuming the field work where more than a dozen middle school baseball players compete in a tournament on the diamond each week. Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal

Chris Taylor, left, chats on Friday, July 12, with Community Outreach Coordinator Todd Stevens, left, and and Waterville Police Officer Rob Bouley at Head of Falls park in Waterville. They talked about recreational and artistic events for families. Taylor was visiting the park with his wife and grandchildren and they were talking about other places to go for outings. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Emily Torres of Glenburn leads her wife, Lindsey Torres, and friends Stacy and Bethany Light of Winthrop beneath a bridge on Sunday, July 14, in Monmouth. Torres describes her 36th birthday kayak trip on Annabessacook Lake in Monmouth as “sunfish and white perch … and gorgeous weather all day.” Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal

Waterville’s Dawson Harrison passes the ball during East team practice in preparation for the 2024 Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic on Monday in Dover-Foxcroft. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel

Moviegoers at the Waterville Opera House watch “Sages-Femmes (Midwifes)” on Thursday at the 27th Maine International Film Festival. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

A member of Duo Valeryves plays the violin Friday during Le Festival de la Bastille in the ballroom at Le Club Calumet at 334 West River Road in Augusta. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel

Addie Tinkham hugs Sabrina Carey after Tinkham placed the honorary game ball Saturday, July 13, at the center of Smith Field on the Thomas College campus in Waterville. The moment came before the start of Kick for Cass, an 11-hour, continuous soccer game to honor Cassidy Charette of Oakland, a student who died Oct. 11, 2014, in a crash during a hayride in Mechanic Falls. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel

The “Be a Friend” display located in front of Ira Mandel’s house on Cool Street is shown Tuesday in Waterville. Mandel has created a space to create new friendships, where people can stop by and talk, leave notes, or connect with him over the phone. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel

Kellan Tilton, 12, of Detroit is presented a certificate Monday, July 15, from Gov. Janet Mills entitling him to a 2024 moose hunting permit. Tilton and two others Maine young people with critical illnesses received the certificates during a presentation at the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife in Augusta. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Storm clouds blow in behind them as Sam Calder and Augusta Surgin’ Sturgeon teammates warm up for a baseball game Wednesday in Augusta. They lost 10-1 to the Gorham Lightning in the final home game of the team’s inaugural season playing in the Greater Northeast Collegiate Baseball League. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Christian Behr, left, a retired staff sergeant with the Augusta Police Department, who still serves as the department’s historian, and Sandra Arbour hold revolvers Wednesday during an event at the department’s new station at 7 Willow St. The revolvers belonged to her late father, former Augusta police Chief Edouard Arbour. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Bryce Longfellow casts into the Kennebec River in Hallowell from a log on Saturday, July 13. Longfellow caught and released a small mouth bass while fishing with his father, Bill, at sunset. Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal

East team running back Kaden Paaso of Mountain Valley High School in Rumford cools down Tuesday during a water break with teammates at practice in Dover-Foxcroft for the 34th Annual Maine Shrine Lobster Bowl Classic. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel