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Josie, a beagle and Jack Russell terrier mix, squints through a face full of snow as owner Neal Googins shovels the sidewalk Monday in South Portland’s Knightville neighborhood. Googins lives around the corner but said that shoveling more of the walk was “just being neighborly.” (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)

Snowfall totals could surpass 17 inches in southern Maine before the first major winter storm of 2026 wraps up early Tuesday morning.

Stefanie Claydon uses an electric snow thrower to clear her driveway and sidewalk Monday in South Portland’s Knightville neighborhood. The machine is smaller than a traditional snowblower, but Claydon said she liked it due to the compatibility of the cords with other tools and its compactness for storing in the off season. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
Billow, a 9-month-old golden retriever, plays in the snow with her owner Cece Racine outside their home Monday in Gardiner. (Anna Chadwick/Staff Photographer)
Amos Woodward of Auburn grooms the cross country ski trails at the Auburn Nordic Ski Association trails in Auburn on Monday. The ANSA volunteer said that he has not seen a snow storm like this one in at least eight years. “We used to get these all the time, but not anymore,” Woodward said about the storm that dropped over a foot of snow in Auburn. (Daryn Slover/Staff Photographer)

Derek Smith clears the parking area for an apartment building that he helps maintain in downtown Lewiston on Monday. (Daryn Slover/Staff Photographer)
A person walks Monday with their dog along Water Street in Gardiner. (Anna Chadwick/Staff Photographer)

Daryn Slover always pulls for the underdog - what would you expect from someone that was raised in Cleveland and lives in Lewiston. He drinks cheap coffee and cheap beer so that he can afford to put his...

Anna is a 2023 graduate of Thomas College in Waterville where she received her Master’s in Business Administration and her undergraduate degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus in marketing...

Libby Kamrowski Kenny is a staff photographer at the Sun Journal who came aboard in June 2025. She’s been in journalism longer than that though, as her prematurely graying hair can attest, starting as...