Robin Wiesner places melon seeds into soil blocks on a rainy afternoon inside an old glass greenhouse at 3 Level Farm in South China. She said that since it has been too wet to plant lately, the greenhouse was getting pretty full of seedlings.

Helen Thompson School fourth-grader Ben Dostie, left, checks out a model spine while chatting with physical therapist Michele Stevens during the Aspirations Fair on Friday afternoon at Laura E. Richards Schools in Gardiner. There were about 30 careers represented at the event. In addition to the kindergarten through second graders at her school, principal Karen […]

Marilyn Meyerhans, left, and David Worthing clean up tires from the side of Route 17 during the Manchester Conservation Committee’s roadside cleanup on Saturday morning. About fifty volunteers fanned out across the town picking up garbage. There were lots of cans, bottles, takeout coffee cups and other typical litter collected according to committee member Annie […]

Standing inside the new Damon’s Quick Stop, co-owner Pat Damon snaps a photo Wednesday of an excavator demolishing the old North Augusta Market on Route 27. There had been a market in the old building since the late 1940s. The Damon family, who also run Damon’s Beverage Mart on Augusta’s east side, have owned it […]

A cyclist passes under flowering ornamental trees on the Kennebec River Rail Trail while heading into downtown Hallowell on a warm, sunny Sunday afternoon.