Sunniva Brady, of Montville, coaxes her duckling, Grace, to stay close while cooling off on a hot Monday in Lake St. George in Liberty. The Brady family raise ducks for eggs. Grace, the runt of the brood, needs to be taken to the lake to learn how to swim and cool off in the broiling heat.
Tyler Stevens, 4, of Winthrop, launches himself into Cochnewagon Lake on Tuesday in Monmouth while taking swimming lessons from lifeguard Amy Belanger at the town beach. Tyler is one of about 100 children who learned how to swim this summer through the community program.
A construction worker pulls plastic from a window on Tuesday at the construction site of new state office buildings being built near the corner of State and Sewall streets in Augusta.
Lacey Frost shops for flowers Thursday at the Cornerstone Farm tent at the Farmers Market on Common Street in downtown Waterville.
Coach Don Beckwith, left, and players joke around during break in their early morning boys soccer practice on Thursday at Maranacook Community School in Readfield.
Kaite West picks cilantro in a row at the Goranson Farm in Dresden recently. The year-round worker at the organic produce grower said vegetables and herbs are ripe, despite the warm weather.
Russel Vannah grinds a lawnmower blade in the shop at the Plains Cemetery Tuesday in Litchfield. Vannah helps his father, Donald, 85, the plot's caretaker mowing and raking.
Kurtis Biggs, top, and Zach Lee work on new fan blades atop a 65-foot-tall windmill tower on Friday at the Windsor Fairgrounds. The fair is scheduled to run Aug. 26 through Sept. 3. The tower that was installed there last year once was used to pump water for the Weeks Mills village water district. The two volunteers were working on a new 10-foot-diameter fan that includes a vane that had been installed by a crane earlier in the morning.
Cony High School football players work through some drills during practice Monday morning in Augusta. Monday marked the first day fall sports teams could start practicing.
Elizabeth Pohl in the renovated reading room on Wednesday at the Lithgow Library in Augusta. Pohl is retiring as librarian.
Jim Parsons serves a side of fries at Bolley's Famous Franks on College Avenue in Waterville on Aug. 10.
Horses and riders in the Palermo Days parade pass the Branch Mills Grange Hall on Saturday, Aug. 11, in Palermo.
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