Terri Webber, of Benton, walks with an umbrella Tuesday while choosing a Christmas along Waterville’s College Avenue.

Workers with PanAm Railways use wedges to reset an empty lumber car that derailed at the Burrill Street crossing in Fairfield on Tuesday.

Two men work on the roof below the bell tower on the Prescott Memorial building on the Good Will-Hinckley campus on Monday.

Anne Cole jams a Christmas tree to the ground to fluff out the branches while setting up at her stand at Pleau’s Market in Winslow this week. Cole said she is open daily from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. and sells trees, wreaths and kissing balls.

Madison Area Memorial High School students Whitney Lloyd, left, and Kristen Bishop serve dinners to clients of the Sebasticook Residential Care Center during the 22nd annual Senior Citizens Thanksgiving dinner on Tuesday evening at the school. More than 300 dinners were served and 100 more delivered to area residents as Thanksgiving fast approaches.

Norma Larsson, behind the flames, and Robert Sezak watch as fire consumes pine cones and brush they gathered off the lawn at their Bunker Island home Sunday night on the Kennebec River in Fairfield.

Driver Joseph Perrault, 30, of Norridgewock, walks past sheared-off axles and his pulp truck, which rolled over and dumped logs near the intersection of Route 43 and County Road in Madison on Monday. Officer James Gordon lll said the accident is still under investigation and shattered a utility pole and totaled the truck. Perrault escaped without injuries.

THORNDIKE — Mario Montana has faced many challenges in his life since he was born with Down syndrome 19 years ago, but one of them won’t be what to do after high school. He will work in a familiar place where he is both respected and appreciated: the school where he graduated in June with a diploma in the Life Skills program

CARATUNK — A Madison man out for the last ride of the season on his all-terrain vehicle in Caratunk was hospitalized after a crash on Sunday. A broken rear wheel may have caused the accident, according to investigators.

Chrissy Marson holds her frightened daughter Dakotah who cried at the sight of a devilish character at the Jeff and Melissa Giguere residence on Oakland Street in Waterville on Monday night. This is the 11th year the family has spooked up to 1,000 trick-or-treaters.