Using ice tongs, Amish farmer Raymond Kuhns unloads blocks of ice he hauled in a horse-drawn wagon that was harvested from a nearby pond in Unity on a cold day recently. The ice is being stored at the Common Sense Farm and will be used for cooling produce next summer.

Lily Waterman lights seven candles on a menorah during a Hanukkah party Friday, Dec. 30, at Temple Beth El in Augusta. The annual community dinner was held on the seventh night of eight-day festival of lights. The menu included special foods fried in oil such as latkes and jelly doughnuts.

Homeowner Rich Faeth surveys the crumbled remains of the porch at his home at 118 Fairbanks Road in Farmington on Wednesday, where a large truck lost control during a storm Tuesday evening. Faeth said he was sitting inside his home 10 feet away from where the truck struck the house. "It's a miracle I'm OK," Faeth said. "I don't feel good sleeping in my own home."

Pine grosbeaks compete Tuesday for pebbles at the Jamies Pond Wildlife Management Area in Farmingdale. The large finches, which inhabit the boreal forest, occasionally visit Maine in the winter. The birds consume fruit, seeds and buds but ingest grit to help digestion.

Gates are closed and locked at the recently shuttered Madison Paper Industries mill on Tuesday.

David Austin shovels snow from the roof of a friends home in Fairfield on Tuesday in anticipation of wet and heavy precipitation that was forecast for later in the day and into Wednesday.

Nine of the 33 bald eagles that Lionel and Myles Quirion spotted Saturday, Dec. 31, roost in a tree at Hatch Hill Landfill in Augusta.

Steve McLaughlin hauls off the holiday fir tree as his wife, Diana, collects the base at their Wayne home Monday. The couple spent the holiday with family and friends, they said.