Bureau of General Services workers lower an 18-by-33-foot replica of an 1860 garrison flag down to waiting Civil War re-enactors during a flag retirement ceremony on Wednesday in the Maine State Cultural Building in the State House complex in Augusta.
On a hot and sunny day more like the middle of summer on Wednesday, Alan Farrington played his guitar and sang songs in Waterville. "For the record, I am employed but off today," Farrington said.
Volunteers getting ready for the Litchfield Fair erect a canopy Wednesday.
Boothbay’s Abel Bryer, left, knocks away a pass intended for Maranacook’s Brandyn Michaud on Friday night at Ricky Gibson Field of Dreams in Readfield.
Oakland fire chief Dave Coughlin, left, listens as state fire marshal investigator Kenneth MacMaster speaks with other investigators, including John Wardwell, second from right, and Jeremy Damren outside the fire damaged home on Swan Hill Road in Oakland on Tuesday.
Charles Blanchard drives Don and Bert, a pair of horses owned by Jessica Tibbetts, of Livermore, on Saturday during the under 3,000 pound class pulling event at the Litchfield Fairgrounds.
Ray Morrow of Smithfield admires an Austin Healey 3000 in Belgrade on Tuesday.
Mary Mayhew, commissioner of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, appears Monday before the Legislature’s Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee in Augusta.
A large crowd of supporters watch as officials take part in a ground breaking ceremony for the Woodford's Family Services building at the Seton Hospital site in Waterville on Tuesday.
Public member Neil Piper reads a statement from the board during a meeting of the Land For Maine’s Future board on Tuesday in Augusta. Four public members were there, but the board didn’t have a quorum because none of the three departmental commissioners attended.
Members of the Gardiner football team have all eyes on Alex Thang and his sister, Kassidy, on Wednesday at the high school.
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