Ferraiolo Construction Co. workers Mark Megill, right, and Dave Buzzell spread pavement Monday on Church Street in Gardiner. The road received a new layer ahead of winter, as temperatures hovered below freezing.

Jules Wing, 4, ducks under a string of holiday lights Tuesday while helping her grandparents, Margaret and Leroy Harrington, decorate their Manchester home. The family exchanged cornstalks placed around the home for Christmas figurines.

Nathan Breault cuts a sidewalk on Water Street in Augusta on Tuesday, beneath clear-blue skies. Crews from S.E. MacMillan Co. were repairing a piece of the walkway that had been removed to upgrade the city’s sewer and stormwater system.

Canada geese sleep Monday on the Kennebec River in Hallowell. Despite scarce food resources and cold weather, some geese winter in the more frigid climates of the species’ territory before migrating north in the spring.

Firefighters walk past a burning window Sunday during a controlled burn of a donated home and barn at the Kelley Bros. Farm in Pittston. Dozens of firefighters from communities in Lincoln and Kennebec County practiced extinguishing blazes and rescuing trapped people during the exercise, Pittston Fire Chief Jason Farris said.

Chris Rollins casts a streamer Wednesday at the dam on Echo Lake in Mount Vernon. The angler, who cast flies across the western United States this summer, was searching for spawning trout and salmon in tail waters across Kennebec County.

Crystal Gatcomb stacks a wreath she wrapped Monday with her grandmother, Darlene Ames, at the latter’s evergreen bough decoration business in Fayette. Mountain View Wreath Shop creates several thousand of the Christmas adornments between November and Christmas, according to Ames.

Darrell Trask, of Vienna, sprays the exterior Wednesday of the Mount Vernon Community Center, on the shores of Minnehonk Lake. The proprietor of Sunny Day Cleaning said he was soaked from pressure washing the first level of the decommissioned church which is open for town events. “I’m hurrying up because I’m freezing,” Trask said.

Penny Winter shovels soil Wednesday into a wheelbarrow at her family’s Readfield farmhouse. The lawn around the barn was recently landscaped and Winter said she was uprooting weeds to make a flower bed before resuming her duties at Kents Hill School, where she teaches with her husband, Eric. The dogs accompany the Winters to class.

Acoustic musicians jam Sunday at the Viles Arboretum in Augusta during the inaugural get-together for either aspiring or experienced musicians. The group plans to meet monthly at the arboretum with an hour of slow jam for novice players, and a couple hours to follow of bluegrass and contra tunes.