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ACTON, ME - AUGUST 23: A wayward pig runs through the Livestock Show RIng during a pig calling competition at the Acton Fair on Saturday. (Staff photo by Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer)
Maine fairs and festivals | Year in Photos
A collection of images from the Maine Trust for Local News photographers from agricultural fairs and community festivals throughout the state in 2025.
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LEWISTON, August 16, 2025 -Balloons lift off Saturday morning at Simard Payne Memorial Park during the Lewiston-Auburn Balloon Festival. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
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PORTLAND, MAINE – AUGUST 2, 2025. Lord Huron performs on the Baxter stage during Back Cove Music and Arts Festival at Payson Park. The band headlined the first day of the inaugural two-day festival. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
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MONMOUTH ME – JUNE 25: Issac Glover, of Rumford, guides a Belgian horse named Spanky around the single horse log twitch course in the pulling ring on the first day of the annual Monmouth Fair Wednesday June 25, 2025 at Monmouth Fairgrounds in Monmouth. Competitors in the event guided their horse dragging through an obstacle course marked off by cones. It was a timed event and they lost points for touching or tipping over cones.
Glover said got into pulling because his parents and grandparents are all involved in pulling contests and that the family goes to several fairs to compete over the summer and fall. (Joe Phelan/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this imageACTON, ME – AUGUST 23: Autumn Grenier, 8, left, Adelaide McArthur, center and Emma Robishaw wave to the crowd as they are driven through the grandstand at the Acton Fair during the grand parade on Saturday. On Friday nightm, Grenier was crowned Little Miss Acton Fair, McAthur Junior Miss Acton Fair and Robishaw Miss Acton Fair. (Staff photo by Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer)
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RANGELEY, August 21, 2025 – Helley Arington, runs towards Rangely Lake Thursday morning with a net to try to catch a frog to enter into the annual Frog Jumping Contest during the Blueberry Festival at Town Cove Park in Rangeley. She was with her family on vacation from MA. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
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LITTLETON, ME – SEPTEMBER 6: Kiwinik Dana, a member of the Penobscot Tribe, dances during the Community Days gathering of the Houlton Band of Maliseets in Littleton on Saturday. Dana was the youth male head dancer at the gathering. (Staff photo by Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this image31752# 20250919_01fair UNITY, MAINE SEPTEMBER 10, 2025 Susan of the East turns her great wheel, walking wheel while spinning sheep wool into fine yarn during a demonstration at the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association Common Ground Country Fair in Unity, Maine Friday September 19, 2025. Susan’s spinning wheel was made in about 1800 in the Mid Atlantic. The fair runs through Sunday September 21.(Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this imageACTON, ME – AUGUST 23: Kristyn Callahan of Acton throws a skillet during the skillet toss competition at the Acton Fair on Saturday. Callahan threw the skillet 41 feet, 7 inches. (Staff photo by Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this imageUNION, ME – JULY 30 Asa Mehuren (cq), 11, and his cow, Sunshine, compete in the 4-H youth dairy show during opening day at the Union Fair Wednesday July 30, 2025 in Union. During the show, Mehuren is judged on how well Sunshine was cleaned, clipped, prepared, as well as handled while in the ring. (Staff photo by Anna Chadwick/Staff Photographer)
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PORTLAND, ME – AUGUST 23: Fans anxiously wait for the Country Band 12/OC to take the stage at Thompson’s Point Saturday, August 23, 2025. (Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer)
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PORTLAND, ME – FEB 20: Spectators watch the Portland Pride Parade on Congress Street Saturday June 21, 2025. (Photo by Carl D. Walsh/Staff Photographer)
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HALLOWELL ME – OCT. 4: Other competitors watch as Teejay Sinclair, of Waterville, throws the hammer during a Backyard Games Saturday October 4, 2025 in Hallowell. (Joe Phelan/Staff Photographer)
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Purchase this imageOXFORD, September 10, 2025 – Kellee Ouellette relaxes on her families ox, Zeke Wednesday morning in the stable being used by her family from Shady Lane Farm of New Vineyard. Zeke and his partner Dick, oxen weighing in at 3770 lbs. were scheduled to take part in several competitions over the course of the fair. The fair started Wednesday with it’s annual Education Day where dozens of scools and other groups flooded the fairgrounds. The fair continues through Saturday. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this imageCUMBERLAND, ME – SEPTEMBER 25: Silas Burr, 13, of Gorham, center, in the stands watching his fellow 4H members show their livestock at the Cumberland Country Fair on Thursday, September 25, 2025. (Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer)
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ACTON, ME – AUGUST 23: A wayward pig runs through the Livestock Show RIng during a pig calling competition at the Acton Fair on Saturday. (Staff photo by Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer)
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