Duane Whitten, center, tosses a square bale of hay Sunday over the head of his brother, Dwight, left, while loading a trailer belonging to Wayne Lewis, right. Lewis, of Chesterville, collected a 100 bales of fresh hay from the Manchester farm belonging to Maynard Whitten, Dwight’s and Duane’s father. 

Laura MacDonald, 17, of Hallowell, reaches out for a tree limb Tuesday while balancing on a slack line at the Hallowell boat landing with her buddy, Lara Blum, 17, of Waterville.  The duo each received a slack line for their birthdays in April, according to MacDonald, and have been perfecting their technique since.

Farmhand Mike Christie lugs a freshly born bull calf Monday from a pasture at the Roseberry Farm in Richmond.  Joe and Paul Roseberry milk 69 head at the organic dairy where about 70 calves have been born over the last year.  The baby bull was moved to a pen for shelter.

Jake, right, 9, Parker, 5, and Scott MacMaster row back to shore Wednesday after fishing on Pleasant Pond in Litchfield.  Jake caught three yellow perch, Parker caught five yellow perch and their father’s got away when the elder MacMaster dropped his fishing pole on the pond.

Alton Oliver welds together the cutting edge on the bucket of a tractor at the organic dairy farm he operates in Weeks Mills, China, with his brother, George. The siblings were repairing implements and checking electric fences during a rain break from haying at the Oliver Dairy Farm.

Stephen Dickey, of Hallowell, casts a fly line recently for Striped Bass at the boat landing on the Kennebec River in Hallowell. Dickey said he has spotted plenty of the anadromous game fish that migrates from salt to fresh water to spawn but has yet to catch any.