Campbell Ace Hardware assistant manager Lisa Cranford holds a chick Thursday before placing it in a brooder for warmth, food and water at the store in Winslow. The chick will grow into a laying hen. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Debris flies Wednesday as excavators demolish the former Redington Funeral Home at 5 Park St. in Waterville. The structure and a nearby duplex are being razed to make way for more parking and another entrance at the First Church of Waterville, says the Rev. Steve Meidahl, pastor of the church. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Sean Geary of Albion and his son, Henry, 15 months, watch March 23 as steam rises above an evaporator, top right, while sap is made into maple syrup during the 42nd Maine Maple Sunday Weekend, at the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences in Hinckley. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Movie patrons exit theaters Tuesday at the Maine Film Center at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center and pass the “Light Sentinels” kinetic sculptures by Skunk Control displayed in Castonguay Square in Waterville. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Dennis LeSuer, who served in the Marine Corps, is wrapped in a patriotic-themed quilt Wednesday during the Quilts of Valor presentation at the Travis Mills Foundation’s annual Vietnam Era Veterans Breakfast at the Augusta Civic Center in Augusta. See a full gallery from event. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel

Maranacook/Winthrop’s Stella Stewart focuses on catching a cone Tuesday during a practice drill at Maranacook Middle School in Readfield. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel

Bay School’s 7th grader Esme Filippo concentrates while listening to the judges March 22 during the State of Maine Spelling Bee that took place at Kanbar Auditorium in the Studzinski Recital Hall at Bowdoin College in Brunswick. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel

Madison Bussiere, left, laughs March 21 with Madison Morrison during Bal-A-Vis-X training, in which the partners use beanbags to build visual motor skills to work on focus and self-regulation. The two are attending the Future Teachers Academy at Thomas College in Waterville. The academy provides Maine high school students a daylong opportunity to learn about their capabilities as a future teacher through a hands-on teaching environment created by faculty members from the Lunder School of Education at Thomas College. More than 100 students from 20 Maine high schools attended this year’s Future Teachers Academy. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel

People visit in the warm sunshine on third floor balcony Thursday at Maine State House in Augusta. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Senate Assistant Majority Leader Sen. Jill Duson, D-Portland, stands in the aisle delivering a message to the House of Representatives that the Senate has convened Tuesday on the first day of the first special session of the 132nd Legislature. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

A person holding an umbrella stands at a rainbow crosswalk March 21 at the corner of Commercial and Oak streets in Augusta. Over an inch of rain fell by early  afternoon according to the National Weather Service. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

A plunger flies off dock and into the cold water of Snow Pond during Alfond Youth & Community Center’s 32nd Annual Polar Plunge Challenge held March 22 at the Oakland Boat Launch in Oakland. Final numbers weren’t available but it was announced that the 135 plungers helped raise over $35,000 that goes directly to local programs that provide meals and resources to those in need. Click link to see a video from event.  Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal