Joani Gavett, left, and Nancy Bunker, both of Mount Vernon, ring in the New Year by blowing noisemakers at noon on Monday at the Cohen Center in Hallowell. Organizers said noon here corresponded with midnight in Indonesia. About a 100 people attended the New Year’s luncheon.

Kris Devine paints the newly installed wooden trim in the public stairway between Water Street and the Arcade parking lot on Dec. 14 in downtown Gardiner. Work is also under way at the top of the stairway, where the former Mad Dog Pub is being renovated and will reopen as Alex Parker’s Steak House.

Ryan Gray, 8, of Hallowell, snowboards down a small hill on Friday, in Hallowell. He and his brother, Finn Gray, were trying out their Christmas presents the day after a snowstorm.

A pedestrian looks up at snow-covered Christmas decorations on the side of Gagliano’s Italian Bistro on Friday, at corner of Winthrop and Water streets in downtown Augusta.

Augusta Pawn and Jewelry employee Troy Hanscom spreads salt in front of the store on Friday on Water Street in downtown Augusta. Building owner Karen Hatch shovels snow further up the street.

Connie Wing, left, and Eunice Dee clap for the Cosmic Carolers after they finished a song at the Hillside Terrace on Wednesday, in Hallowell. The group performs in the city’s annual Christmas parade and this is the eigth year that the Cosmic Carolers have performed at several assisted-living and nursing homes in Hallowell.

People walk past the brightly decorated windows of Stacy’s Hallmark on Water Street in downtown Augusta on Tuesday.

Marine Pfc. Evan Goodwin, left, and Marine Corps League member Dana Walls, of West Gardiner, load a bag of toys donated for the Toys for Tots campaign into a vehicle in Augusta on Monday. Goodwin and another Marine were picking up the toys donated by the Western Maine Young Marines and the Marine Corps League Detachment 599.

Keith McCray stacks another package on the pile waiting to be picked up by UPS The Mailing Center, his store in Shaw’s Plaza in Augusta, on Monday. McCray joked that trying to stacked the different-shaped boxes was like a giant puzzle. He said that Monday is usually one of the busiest shipping days of the year, but the snowstorm had cut down on the number of customers coming in.

After getting presents wrapped for him by volunteers, Bobby Miller walks out of the United Volunteers of Maine’s Santa’s Other Workshop, at the Marketplace in Augusta, on Sunday. The workshop is located between the Dress Barn and Home Depot and isopen from Monday to Friday from 4:30 to 8 p.m. this week. In addition to wrapping gifts in exchange for a donation, Santa’s Other Workshop offer pictures with Santa and is a dropoff point for several charity toy drives.