Staff photo by David Leaming
PICKY PICKY: Barrels Community Market employees Deb Wrobel, left, and Melissa Hacket pick dead leaves off watermelon pants growing in the recently opened park in the Concourse in Waterville.
WATER PLUGGING: Dennis LePage of A. LePage & Sons Masonry re-caulks concrete on the wall of the Waterville Fire Department on Thursday.
CENTER STAGE: Cameron Weaver, left, and Chuck Lakin assemble walls on a performance stage at the new Engagement Park being built in the Concourse in Waterville on Thursday. The park will have benches and raised beds for vegetables.
HOLE IN ONE: Tyler Mitchell uses a splitting maul to pound a hole in an old fuel tank as required for recycling the tank on Thursday at the family farm in Troy.
This slideshow features a series of photos from the Taste of Greater Waterville Festival today in Waterville, Maine. Photos by Morning Sentinel staff photographers David Leaming and Michael Seamans.
New England Music Camp will offer a pops concert on Aug. 4 at the Messalonskee Performing Arts Center in Oakland at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $20 at the door. There are concerts at the Bowl at the camp on Au5. 5, 11 and 12 at 3 p.m. that are free and open to the public.
Dustin Thibodeau holds his son Lennon who can barely contain his excitement while standing in line for ice cream with other kids outside the Chaplin Street apartments in Waterville on a hot Monday. Traveling ice cream vendor Todd Gray, inside truck, said business was good.
A woman comforts the female driver, sitting, of a vehicle that struck an outside wall at the Oak Grove Center in Waterville on Sunday, causing damage to the wall and vehicle. Waterville police Sgt. Alan Main said the driver was visiting the center and may have hit the gas instead of the brake. Rescue personnel were called to check on a resident who was inside the room where the vehicle struck.
Noah McMahon, left, blasts Camden Herrick with a water gun while cooling off at Lake George Regional Park in Canaan on a hot and humid Friday. The beach was packed with swimmers and sunbathers. Ranger Jeff McCabe said close to 500 people visited beaches at the park on both sides of the lake.
Common Street Art Gallery Project Coordinator Emilie Knight hangs artwork at the new Waterville gallery on Common Street on Tuesday. Knight said there will be a soft opening this Saturday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. with the new exhibit, food, drinks and music. The art exhibit will be available for viewing through August.
