Joe McKenna touches up his brush Thursday while applying a coat of paint to the exterior trim of the Dresden Town Office. A crew from Tom’s Painting Service has applied a new coat to the exterior of the former, one-room school that was “built way back,” according to Dresden town administrative assistant Trudy Foss.

Anna Kulinski, 14, lets go of her brother, Jason, 9, while practicing acrobatics Sunday on the trampoline behind their Monmouth farmhouse. The siblings were practicing flips and landings that the elder Kulinski performs on the Monmouth Academy cheering squad.

Samantha Lee, 15, of Winthrop, hangs strings inside a greenhouse Monday at the Stevenson Farm in Wayne. Lee was erecting a route for tomato plants to climb this season during her spring break from high school.

The Maine Historic Preservation Commission has begun excavating Fort Richmond, the first English fort in Maine, in Richmond, with the hope of recovering as many artifacts as possible before construction on a new bridge over the Kennebec River between Dresden and Richmond begins in July. Commission archeologist Leith Smith said volunteers are wanted to assist at the site through the end of June. “The pressure is on,” Smith remarked.

Polly Peters Blake, 85, and her husband, Bear, 76, clean up the peonies bed Monday outside their Mount Vernon farm. The couple relocated to the town three years ago, Polly said, but she recalls watching a previous owner of the farm plant the bed “over 40 years ago.”

Wyatt Rush, 18, of Farmingdale, casts a nymph Thursday in a Hallowell stream while learning to fly fish as part of his senior project at Hall-Dale High School. Rush said he had to study the history of fishing, the science of tying flies and practice casting with the hope of catching a few trout. “I’m still pretty new to this,” Rush said while roll casting his line.

Frank Smith of New Sharon Monday measures the opening for new doors he planned to hang at the entrance of the Vienna Baptist Church. Organized in 1820 and erected in 1840, the church has served the community for over 150 years.

Gardiner police, left, and firefighters salute as the remains of William MacDonald are carried into funeral services Tuesday at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Gardiner. MacDonald was Gardiner’s commissioner of public safety, a joint of position of police and fire chief, from 1959 to 1979, then was elected mayor in the early 1980s. MacDonald died Wednesday in Gardiner, where he was born 88 years ago. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Christine MacDonald, and several generations of children and grandchildren.