Tobin McNutt, a first grader at Hall-Dale Elementary School in Hallowell, displays how she is decorating her Valentine’s Day mailbox Wednesday so her classmates can put valentines into the box. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel

Monmouth’s Maeve Burgess fights Tuesday through Richmond’s Darby Flanagan, right, and Mora Griffin to take a shot. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel

Winslow’s Carter Calvo grabs a rebound away from Maranacook’s Alex Labelle (32) and Mitchell Maceda during a B North prelim game Wednesday in Winslow. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel

Dr. Isabella Askari, left, looks down Tuesday from the fourth floor under the dome while getting a tour at the Maine State House from Charlie Soltan in Augusta. Dr. Askari is on the Maine Osteopathic Association board of directors and was there for the group’s Vaccine Day of Action event in the Hall of Flags. Soltan’s firm, Soltan Bass LLC, lobbies for the group. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Colby Woodsmen Team member Zach McClimon carries a block of ice Sunday, Feb. 9, from a pond in Freeman Township. The Beth Israel Congregation in Waterville plans to use the ice in a community mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. See more photos from event in this gallery.  Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Maintenance workers from the Augusta Civic Center move a section of floor panel while installing the basketball floor at the Augusta Civic Center on Monday, Feb. 10, in Augusta. The Augusta Civic Center is set to host the Class A North and Class C and D South tournaments starting Friday evening. See more photos from the event in this gallery.  Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Plow trucks clear North Street in Waterville on Thursday as a pedestrian walks in the blowing snow. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

A building at 60 Front St. in Waterville is demolished Tuesday. The building was the first of five scheduled to be razed to make way for Head of Falls Village, a 63-unit apartment complex with office and retail space. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Bert Languet sprays water Wednesday onto the frozen surface of Snow Pond in Sidney. Workers were improving the ice surface and setting up tents for this weekend’s Maine Pond Hockey Classic at the Snow Pond Center for the Arts. The annual event is a fundraiser for Waterville Area Boys & Girls Club and YMCA. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Eventual winner Dillon Gray of Mt. Blue High School is taken down by Camden Hills’ Landon Pease during the Class A North 150-pound final. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Morse High School’s Gaffney McDonough celebrates winning 50-yard freestyle in 20.47 during the KVAC Class B boys swimming championships on Friday, Feb. 7, in Bath. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal