Bub Pierce washes a Pergeron on Tuesday in the stalls at the McGee Farm in West Gardiner.  The teamster is conditioning 10 pulling horses for upcoming competitions with a spring pull planned for June at the Windsor Fair.  Pierce said he tries to work each horse every day but elected to bath a few on […]

Leon Crockett repairs the gears of a ditch-digger Sunday at his Farmingdale shop, Crockett’s Garage. Crockett traded use of the excavator for repair of its gears to build a concrete pad.

Alexis Golubow, of Richmond, rehearses her hula hoop performance Thursday at the park on the Kennebec River in Richmond.

Mary Shepard, of Gardiner, photographs a raging Cobbossee Stream on Wednesday in Gardiner. The Kennebec River and several of its tributaries are still coursing at elevated levels due to torrential rainfall earlier in the week. Shepard made a few images of the swollen stream as part of a year long photo contest with 16 girlfriends. 

A man walks down the flooded sidewalk between the Kennebec River and parking lots off Water Street in Augusta on Tuesday. The river rose over its banks in the late afternoon and a flood advisory is expected to remain in effect today with more rain in the forecast.

Maine Conservation Corps field team leaders Augusta Reilly and Josh Moore pack tents Monday at the group’s storage barn in Hallowell. The Conservation Corps teams will be deploying in May to perform maintenance on wilderness trails across Maine this summer and often stay in tents while working at remote sites, the leaders said. The program […]

Jehovah’s Witnesses inspect the pool Sunday inflated inside the Augusta Civic Center during the spring assembly for members of the denomination from Central Maine. Over 1,900 people attended the service that featured baptisms in the pool, according to Joseph Elliott, of Augusta. The Jehovah’s Witnesses cleaned up the Civic Center after a circus Saturday in […]