Hallowell artist Chris Cart stands Sunday outside the Vallee Real Estate building on Water Street, where he plans to install a mural of the city's history.
Gov.-elect Janet Mills, center, greets a committee of House and Senate members in the hallway between the chambers at 2:53 on Wednesday in the Maine State House in Augusta. The committee told Mills that she'd officially won the election held last November. It was the start of an evening of ceremonial events. The new portrait of Gov. Paul LePage was hung in the rotunda last week.
Antique dealers Tom Diplock, left, and Heidi Ellrich look at a circa 1950s Japanese toy fire truck she had for sale at the annual New Years Day antique sale on Tuesday in the Augusta Armory.
The sun sets behind an ice fishing shack on the frozen surface of Messalonskee Lake on Wednesday in Sidney.
Framed by the holiday display window inside Boynton's Market, Jeff Wood shovels snow outside the Water Street store at 8:15 a.m. on Tuesday in downtown Hallowell. The new year started with a storm featuring a wet, slushy and sloppy wintry mix.
Madison 34 Jacob Leader, center, gets double teamed by Oak Hill Gabe Samson (10) and Gavin Rawstron (11) during a game on Thursday at Oak Hill High School in Wales.
Maranacook Kaylee Jones (30), left, and MCI Sydney Farrar (10) battle for a loose ball during a game on Wednesday in the Mr. Burbank Memorial Gym at Maranacook Community School in Readfield.
Trevor Pierce, 12, skates Wednesday through a beaver dam near his home in West Gardiner. "Just taking advantage of no snow," Pierce said of crossing the bare cover on nature's ice rink.
Forest Hills' Aislyn Obert, left, fouls Rangeley's Lauren Eastlack (11) on Saturday at Cony High School in Augusta.
Forest Hills' Parker Desjardins (14) dives for the loose ball as Rangeley's Callahan Crosby (21) tries to make a play Saturday at Cony High School in Augusta.
A firefighter moves to pour water on a giant ball of fire erupting from an overturned tank truck that burned along Route 27 in Belgrade on Wednesday.
Thick black smoke could be seen for miles as flames rise from an overturned tank truck that burned along Route 27 in Belgrade on Wednesday.
Dozens of firefighters battle a fire early Friday morning at a building in downtown Gardiner.
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