From left, Mike Feldman, Kris McCabe, Luke Booker, Adrienne Bennett and Shon Theriault jump into Maranacook Lake during the third annual Maine Law Enforcement Torch Run Ice Out Plunge on Saturday at the Winthrop Town Beach.

Gardiner senior Peter Del Gallo is the Kennebec Journal Wrestler of the Year.

Amish farmer Caleb Stoll and his three work horses pull a manure spreader while fertilizing a field beside the Common Sense farm in Unity on Saturday.

Cony senior Noah Aube, left, and freshman Talia Jorgensen pose at the Kennebec Valley YMCA in Augusta. Aube and Jorgensen are the Kennebec Journal Boys and Girls Swimmers of the Year.

Sen. Susan Deschambault, of Biddeford, answers reporters' questions after being sworn into office Tuesday, four days after her originally scheduled swearing-in, at the State House in Augusta.

There was no lack of umbrellas in downtown Waterville on Thursday as Margy Burns Knight and her husband Steve walked with one past the tree filled with nearly 100 red and orange umbrellas in the pouring rain. The umbrellas are dangling from a tree in Castonguay Square to help celebrate the visual and performing arts in the city and usher in the opening this week of both a poetry exhibit at Common Street Arts and the musical "Mary Poppins" at the Waterville Opera House.

Richard Foster carries limbs Monday near the uprooted base of a tall pine tree that was blown down by wind during a storm in Benton. Foster said he and his neighbor are lucky the tree fell toward Route 139 and not on their nearby homes.

Sean Nava, of Oakland, takes advantage of the warm weather and no rain and casts his line on to the water in Smithfield last Friday.

Day One counselor Rick Kigger leads a Seven Challenges group session with students at the residential substance abuse facility on the Good Will-Hinckley campus in Fairfield Tuesday.

Two turkey vultures are perched on the chimney of a home in Waterville presumably to capture the warmth coming up the flue on a chilly Monday.

Working near where the old and new sections of Lithgow Public Library connect, a construction worker installs a roof Wednesday on the addition being built onto the library in Augusta.