Ken Armstrong, owner of Lakewood Nursery in Madison, waters his flowers Wednesday. “It’s nice that it’s cooler today,” Armstrong said, amid temperatures in the high 70s.
Staff photo by Andy Molloy Daniel Fortunato, 4, gets some ear protection from his mother, Staci, as emergency vehicles with blaring horns roll by Saturday during the Fourth of July Parade in Augusta.
Litchfield firefighter Zakk McKinney, right, and Capt. Michael Sherman cool off Sunday after helping extinguish a blaze in a home off Route 126 in Litchfield.
CAP.cutline_standalone:Violet Sulka-Hewes, left, leads Kathy Bryant and Dustin Williamson down Fish Hatchery Road in Monmouth Tuesday July 7, 2015 while skate skiing. High school cross country skiers and coaches from across Maine meet weekly in Monmouth to condition on the open roads through the community, according to Bryant, Monmouth Academy’s cross country ski coach. Each skier averages about fifteen miles when the loops on wheels are completed.
Jesse Wokman, 16, puts up a shot as Theo Heaven, also 16, defends during a game of pickup basketball Tuesday near the North Street park in Waterville as the temperature neared 80 degrees.
Kessa Libby, center, along with her father, Doug Libby, left, and uncle David Libby, right, pull up to the North Street dock on Friday on Messalonskee Stream in Waterville.
Historic interpreter Julia Pierce shows an artifact she just cleaned to director Linda Novak recently at Old Fort Western in Augusta.
Martins fly around a group of purple martin houses recently at the Yeaton Farm in Belgrade.
Ray Fecteau casts a petanque ball during a match at the 2014 Augusta Fuel Co. Open Doubles Petanque Tournament at Mill Park in Augusta.
Gardiner Police Chief Jim Toman prepares to seize drugs Wednesday from a vehicle at the park on the Kennebec River in Gardiner.
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