Spencer Murray hands a bottle of cold water to Ranger Corp. worker Ryan Sinclair and other employees working Friday near the Murray home in Waterville. The men have befriended the boy, who has watched them work since moving to the city recently.

Spencer Murray speaks on a radio given to him by Ranger Corp. worker Rob Irish at a work site near the Murray family home in Waterville on Friday.

Ranger Corp. worker Jacob Flanagin shows Spencer Murray a union sticker on a hard hat given to the boy on Friday. Flagger Michelle Holmes watches.

The Murray family heads to a work site in Waterville where Ranger Corp. workers and their son, Spencer, have become buddies. Harold and Felicia Murray take their children — from left, Airies, Spencer and Willow — to see the workers.