Kelly Houston searches for more used books to buy on Thursday in the Reading Room at the Lithgow Public Library in Augusta. The book sale continues Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and then on Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon. They’re planning on having two sales a year inside the library instead of one big one at an offsite venue.

Harpist Deborah Ridlon performs at the Mill Park Farmers Market on Tuesday in Augusta. The market’s summer hours are 2 to 6 p.m., Tuesdays through mid-November. In all, the market will have 16 vendors, according to market manager Emily Vellani. They’ll have seedlings, produce, meat, eggs, honey, syrup, baked goods, ice cream, cheese and other items. The market will accept EBT or SNAP program payments.

Owner Larry Mason drives a new lawn tractor past rows of push mowers in for repair on Tuesday at Mason’s Lawnmower and Power Equipment in Augusta.

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.