DOWN TIME: Mark Rush catches up on local news Tuesday while taking a break from the register at Randolph Take Out. Rush said the exterior paper break was a good way to experience the mild weather.

CARE: Hall-Dale High School students paint a picnic shelter Wednesday at the Hallowell recreation area during the school’s first Day of Caring. About 100 students enrolled in the Jobs for Maine’s Graduates program, Key Club and National Honor Society worked on projects across Hallowell during the school’s first public service day, according to Lydia Leimbach, who coordinated the effort.

DECORATION: Jean Ward, left, washes carrots and beets while Flo Bolduc greets visitors setting up the exhibit hall at the Litchfield Fair.

Children cross the South Monmouth Road after exiting a stopped school bus Thursday afternoon on the second day of school in Monmouth.  Busses are rolling and stopping for children on roads across Maine this week with the re-opening of school. The children were attending Countryside Daycare.

TEAM TALK: Rich Potter III, right, chats with driver Jesse Hayes, 11, Tuesday before the small lawn garden and tractor pull at the Windsor Fair. Kids pulled weights on the souped up mowers on the third day of the annual agricultural exhibition that continues through Labor Day.

THE SKIPPER: Stephen Ducy, 5, skips on the way to receiving his diploma Monday during graduation ceremonies for 35 students who attended the Children’s Center in Augusta.

BROKEN IN: John Wing, 81, fires up a Farmall tractor Monday that he recently put up for sale on the front yard of his Manchester farm.

SEINE SAMPLE: Maine Department of Marine Resources employees James Beaudry, left, Josh Noll and Jason Bartlett examine fish they collected Tuesday in a seine net at the confluence of Worromontogus Stream and the Kennebec River in Randolph.

CUKE HUNT: Justin Sawyer, right, and Kevin Whitten search for cucumbers and squash Monday beneath the leaves in Whitten’s garden in Manchester. The men were taking a break from stacking hay bales together to inspect produce that Whitten has cultivated this summer.