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SNAPSHOT: Palm Sunday

Lindsey and Connor Bell distribute palm fronds to parishioners of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Hallowell before services on the moveable feast of Palm Sunday that is celebrated a week before Easter.  The nine-year-old Farmingdale twins were assisting the Rev. George Hickey as alter servers during the Mass to remember the return of Jesus to […]

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SNAPSHOT: Bikers bowl against bullies

John Rump, right, bowls Sunday as folks dance to live music during the Strike Out Bullying Bowl-a-thon hosted by the 1-7-10 Bowling and Entertainment Center in Augusta.  The event, sponsored by the volunteer biker group Rindin’ Steel, raised several thousand dollars to donate to schools to stop bullying.

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SNAPSHOT: It’s a flat, flat world

Maranacook Community High School freshmen Taylor Kubicki, left, and Austin Harris race Tuesday to place a cone atop Syria within a map loaned to the school by the National Geographic Society. The room-sized map, with meticulous geographic and political detail, was borrowed by teacher Carrie Emmerson for a week to teach elementary school students geography […]

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SNAPSHOT: On spring rake

Spring rake: Cindy Hall rakes up leaves Sunday on the lawn of her Monmouth home as temperatures hover in the 70s. “This is the earliest I’ve done spring cleaning,” she said of touching up the lawn of the home she’s lived in for 30 years.

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SNAPSHOT: The Great Zembroski

Kevin Zembroski, of Farmingdale, balances upon a slack line Sunday afternoon in Capitol Park in Augusta. Zembroski and his friend Carylanne Wolfington, of Hallowell, were practicing their balancing act together in temperatures in the mid-70s on one of the last days of winter.