Oak Hill Middle School seventh-grader Eric O’Connor, left, works with Carrie Ricker School third-grader Damian Judd on O’Connor’s MacBook on Tuesday in Litchfield. Next year, the fourth- and fifth-grade students will receive the MacBooks the the seventh- and eighth-graders are currently using.

Akira Muto, Japanese Consul General for New England, right, and his wife, Misako, laugh and sing along as Japanese language teacher Naoto Kobayashi leads his students in a song Friday at Richmond Middle School. Muto, who is based in Boston, and his delelgation spent the day visiting Maine. They met with Gov. Paul LePage at the State House in Augusta and stopped at Hall-Dale Elementary School before the Richmond visit. There were visits to Bath and Portland scheduled for later in the day.

Sam Birch, left, and Joe Wathen roll a mail cart full of donated food into the Augusta Food Bank storage area on Saturday as part of the annual National Association of Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. “It’s one of our biggest drives of the year and fills up storage area and shelves at time of year people don’t traditionally think of hunger issues,” said Abbie Perry, executive director of the Augusta Food Bank. The group’s next big event will be a lawn sale, food drive and hot dog sale on June 1 at the Shaw’s store on Western Avenue in Augusta.

Fred Davis takes a photograph of the primrose blooming in front of Fred’s Puzzles and Gifts on Thursday in Palermo. Davis said that he and his wife work in the gardens outside the business on Route 3 near the Palermo – China border.

A pair of women walk across the plaza between State House and Burton M. Cross State Office Building on Wednesday in Augusta. The weather forecast through the weekend calls for a chance of clouds and showers.

Angela McKenna, left, and Tabitha Ryan, both of Augusta, push strollers underneath blossoming trees on Tuesday on the Kennebec River Rail Trail in Hallowell. Finn Ryan and Eva McKenna were both riding in Ryan’s stroller.

Roger Badershall power washes a snowblower on Tuesday in Augusta. He joked that it was probably safe to put it away for the season now.

Gary Hinkley picks up trash along Route 17 on Saturday in Manchester. He was part of the Manchester Conservation Commission’s annual roadside cleanup event. More than 40 people helped to pull trash, tires, and recyclables off the roadsides. Boy Scouts Troop 622, Cub Scout Pack 622 and the Hope Baptist Church were involved in the event.

Participants sing “How Great Thou Art” to wrap up the National Day of Prayer event on Thursday on the State House front steps in Augusta. The singing was preceded by the reading of a proclamation by Gov. Paul LePage and the reading aloud of the 2013 Prayer for the Nation. The event also included a prayer walk around the State House and the city of Augusta.