Tani Lowe, center, plays the bass drum with the Cony Pep Band before the opening game of the boys basketball season against Lawrence High School on Friday at Cony High School in Augusta.

SAD 49 Superintendent Reza Namin, foreground, addresses the State Board of Education at the Primary School in Fairfield on Wednesday. The board has put replacing the century-old school first on the list to be replaced.

A police officer exits the Bear's One Stop store in Newport as other investigators inside speak with employees after a shooting Wednesday evening.

Employees with Wiswell Electrical company run wire under numerous solar panels at the Kennebec Sanitary Treatment District solar array project under construction at the Waterville facility on Tuesday. From left are Mark Murphy, Gus Moen and Devon Vigue.

Alon Nagli, left, and Lucien Gross watch as candles are lit in menorahs during a Hanukkah service at the Beth Israel Synagogue in Waterville on the last of the eight-day Jewish festival on Sunday. Food, singing and games were enjoyed by families.

Volunteer Courtney Yeager carefully pulls misplaced sweaters that should have gone into clothing area out from under a stack of toys while organizing donations Friday at the Capital Region Salvation Army's Christmas Castle in The Marketplace at Augusta. She was able to extract the sweaters without it all collapsing like a Jenga tower.

Winslow/Gardiner/Cony goalie Gabriella Chambers blocks a shot by Lewiston's Paige Pomerlea, left, during a game Saturday at the Camden National Bank Ice Vault in Hallowell

John Cadwallader ties garland to a lamppost at the corner of Water and Winthrop streets Friday, Dec. 7, in downtown Hallowell. Cadwallader and Bubba Batchelder, of Wingate Landscaping, put up garland and bows just in time for the city's holiday parade Saturday.

A juvenile bald eagle rests on top of a methane gas well that sticks out from a plastic-covered closed section of landfill Tuesday at Hatch Hill Landfill in Augusta.

A woman skates Thursday atop Maranacook Lake in Winthrop. Temperatures are anticipated to moderate above freezing this weekend, according to the National Weather Service, before dropping next weekend.

Gardiner's Michaela Gardner, right, dribbles around Leavitt's Emelia Bowie on Tuesday in Gardiner.