Olivia Turner collects her deflated umbrella Tuesday while walking to lunch with Devon Hall in Gardiner.

Bob Dill sets a fencepost Monday outside of a pasture at the E.C. Barry Farm in Farmingdale. Dill said he’s upgrading all the pickets in the fields where beef cows graze for the summer.

Brad Cushman photographs a relative’s gravestone Monday at the Hallowell Cemetery. Cushman and his parents drove up from Burlington, Mass., to examine four Maine cemeteries which contain the remains of relatives.

Police officers from across New England enter a building on Water Street in Augusta on Tuesday during the basic Special Weapons and Tactics training school being taught this week by the National Tactical Officers Association.

U.S. Coast Guardsmen unload buoys Thursday at the Hallowell boat landing on the Kennebec River. The crew from the Coast Guard’s Aids to Navigation station in Portland reset multiple buoys that were displaced by recent high water in the river.

Parole and Probation officer Mark Fortin, left, and Gardiner Police officer Chris Balestra, center, and Gardiner Police Det. Mike Durham run down Route 201 in Gardiner Thursday while participating in the law enforcement torch run to benefit the Maine Special Olympics. Police from across Maine are escorting the torch from Kittery to the University of Maine in Orono to raise funds for the annual competition for people with special needs. Fortin and the Gardiner officers collected the torch at the Richmond line from Johanna and Norman Stickney and handed it off to Hallowell Police Chief Eric Nason in Farmingdale who carried it to Augusta, where the police ran with it Vassalboro. The run should take three days.

Windsor Elementary School fourth-grader Sydni Plummer dumps cherries on the head of principal Rob Moody on Tuesday, during a celebration at the school in which students and faculty turned Moody into a human sundae.

Doug Rooks, left, and his son, Emlyn Rooks-Hughes, scrape down the picket fence at their West Gardiner home on Monday.

Zach O’Ben, left, stacks firewood with his grandmother, Pauline O’Ben, in the garage of her Gardiner home on Monday.