WATERVILLE — High atop a dead tree overlooking Messalonskee Stream, near homes and Waterville Senior High School, is a nest made with stout sticks that is big enough to hold a person.

David Armstrong lifts his daughter Ryleigh May in and out of Messalonskee Lake in Oakland on a muggy Monday as his other daughter Katie breaks the surface.

At the request of lifeguard Allison Scully, Trevor Lewis, left, amd Zach Mitchell splash water on her to cool off at the Alfond Municipal Pool in Waterville on a hot Tuesday.

A section of a 60-foot willow tree falls after Jason Fitch of J & L Tree sawed it along the Kennebec River in Winslow on Thursday. The entire dying tree was eventually taken down.