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Talya LaChance casts a fishing line into the Kennebec River on Aug. 27 from the shore in Fort Halifax State Historic Site in Winslow. The 1754-era fort was built for the protection of settlements against Native American raids. Fort Halifax, is home to the oldest blockhouse in the United States. When the flood of April 1, 1987, dismantled the blockhouse, crews recovered logs as far south as the Richmond-Dresden Bridge, 40 miles downstream. The blockhouse was painstakingly reassembled and remains on its original site today. (Joe Phelan/Staff Photographer)

Isaiah Graf of Skowhegan rolls a desk chair into his dorm room Aug. 28 at the University of Maine at Augusta’s Stevens Hall at Stevens Commons in Hallowell. UMA will have 100 students living in three dorms there and expects to put 42 more students up in a Best Western motel near the Augusta campus, according to Vice President of Enrollment Management Jonathan Henry. He added that for the first time, there is also housing at UMA’s location in Bangor where 15 students are expected to live in a motel near that campus too. (Joe Phelan/Staff Photographer)

A bee pollinates a bachelor’s button flower Aug. 20 at Junction Garden in Vassalboro. The flower heads are used as dyes. See full gallery. (Joe Phelan/Staff Photographer)

Spectators and judges watch Aug. 26 as Hannah Josephs of Yarmouth leads her steers Stormy and Twister through the course in the show steer and oxen wood scooting contest in the Lincoln Orff Show Ring at the Windsor Fairgrounds. After competing, Josephs said the course of cones and barrels was meant to imitate conditions when draft animals were used in logging and were led around trees and rocks. The Windsor Fair is the state’s second-largest agricultural fair and has been running since 1888. (Joe Phelan/Staff Photographer)

Maine sophomore running back Rashawn Marshall carries the ball Aug. 26 during practice. (Anna Chadwick/Staff Photographer)

Fans watch the cars competing Aug. 24  during the Oxford 250 at Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford. (Anna Chadwick/Staff Photographer)

Austin Teras of Gray waves the checkered flag Aug. 24 as he stands on his car after winning the 52nd Oxford 250 in Oxford. (Anna Chadwick/Staff Photographer)

Street Stocks cars drive through a cloud of dust Aug. 24 during a 30-lap feature prior to the Oxford 250 main event in Oxford. (Anna Chadwick/Staff Photographer)

Skowhegan’s Xavier Sproul-Costa reaches for a pass during an Aug. 26 practice in Skowhegan. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)

Skowhegan cross country runners Gabby Hall, left, and Eleanor Browne work out during team practice Aug. 28 at Skowhegan Area High School. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)

Elizabeth Beckwith-Simmons, 5, of Canaan, looks away from her mother, Harmony Beckwith-Taylor, right, during a photo session to celebrate the girl’s first day of kindergarten at Margaret Chase Smith Community School in Skowhegan. The pair are shown Aug. 26 at Coburn Park. They did a variety of photos using props as part of the backdrop. Beckwith-Taylor said Elizabeth’s favorite subjects are writing, art and playground. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)

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