Sammy Grandahl, 15, leaps a hurdle Monday during track practice in the parking lot of Monmouth Academy. The school’s athletes have already competed in one meet, coach Norm Thombs said, and are conditioning for several more, even though the school does not have a track to practice upon.

Haskell Padgett, of Whitefield, right, and Nathaniel Wing, of Edgecomb, descend falls on the Sheepscot River in Whitefield Sunday in a 13-foot canoe. The men were paddling down the river, charged with melted snow, to Head Tide in Alna, a 10-mile journey, they said.

Susan Tessier lugs a Maine coon cat she showed Sunday during the Nauticats Cat Show in Augusta. Over 150 cats competed in 20 different events in the show that commenced Friday. Tessier traveled from Quebec to have her feline judged.

Austin Moore prunes an apple tree Wednesday his family’s Whitefield orchard. “We’re looking for a bumper crop this year,” Moore predicted.

Cony High School students rehearse Wednesday for the 122nd Chizzle Wizzle at the Augusta school. Featuring a 1980s theme and titled “Rock of Stages,” the annual performance by Cony students runs March 19-22. Tickets are available at the high school.

Mark McLain, left, plays the guitar while Stephen Arsenault, Marsha Mann and her husband Jacob sing hymns Sunday on Water Street in Hallowell. The quartet held a street meeting to spread the message of their Pentecostal faith. The members of New Light Fellowship Church in Augusta said they plan to sing and pray outside more often as the weather improves.

Corey Brown paints the interior of a roll top desk Sunday outside the Pooch’s 2nd Hand Shop on Water Street in Gardiner. The non-profit shop sells items and donates all the proceeds to local animal welfare causes, according to Brown. Brown donated his time to repaint the desk that was recently sold.

Maine Department of Transportation workers Dave Ferland, left, and Lenny Sioch hang plastic tarp frames with colleagues Tuesday on a platform beneath the bridge on Route 41, spanning Mill Stream in Vienna. The workers were erecting a winter enclosure to commence repairing posts, rails and wing walls on the bridge, according to Ferland, the supervisor. The crew should be finished fixing the span in about six weeks.

Augusta Public Works employee Matt Jackson directs a truck to pour snow Thursday on the winter dump located on the banks of the Kennebec River, on the east side of Augusta. Workers were collecting snow from city schools and relocating it to the hill that rises to a height just below the catwalk underneath Memorial Bridge. The hill isn’t as high as it has been in past winters, workers said, and usually melts by the end of spring.

Kate Mohlar, 9, holds up her classmate, Ella Schmidt, 9, during circus training Thursday for students at the Readfield Elementary School. Students learned about juggling, tight rope walking and acrobatics from Rick Davis, a performer from the Vermont based Circus Smirkus, before a circus show to be held at the school on Friday at 7 p.m.