Denisa Laflamme, of Lewiston, warms up beside the wood stove at the Vassalboro Public Library Wednesday. The wood stove is part of the library’s logo. Hours are Mondays and Wednesday from 12:30 to 8 p.m., and Saturday’s from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

After putting his gloves on, Tyler Kalloch claps his hands to keep warm Tuesday while working the full service gas pumps at the J&S Oil Xpress Stop Convenience Store in Farmingdale. Kalloch said it helps to dress in several layers and to keep moving while working outside on cold mornings – such as the ones this week when the temperature dropped into the single digits.

Matt Brennan’s breath looks like a cloud around his head as he works outside in the cold weather on Friday at the Grand View Timber Frames display site on Western Avenue in Manchester. It was a beautiful sunny afternoon, but very cold, with temperatures not getting out of the low teens. The Winthrop-based company constructs log and timber-frame houses and barns.

Andrew Nichols clears a driveway with a small plow on his garden tractor on Thursday in Hallowell. The storm the day before had dumped 3 to 4 inches of snow across the area.

Don Bilodeau, left, moves a carved bear to make room for a life-sized sculpture of a person on Thursday. Bilodeau and artist Dan Burns were moving the sculpture from where it had been on display in Hallowell. Burns makes and sells chain saw sculptures outside McKenzie’s Power Equipment on Route 17 in Augusta.

Workers shovel snow on Wednesday in front of Key Plaza in downtown Augusta.

Babysitter Alyssa Withee, 21, left, helps Flannery Brady, seated, age 2, and Laila Brady build a snowman on Saturday outside their Hallowell home.

A pair of fisherman wait for a flag to pop up on their ice fishing traps Thursday on Upper Pleasant Pond in Richmond.

Oliver Kucharski, 3, left, gets a ride from his sister, Maya Kucharski, 8, both of Sidney, past some tractors at the Maine Agricultural Trades Show on Thursday at the Augusta Civic Center.