

Car lights make streaks down Water Street in this long exposure photo taken Thursday of the Market Square holiday decorations in downtown Augusta.
Dana Nadeau operates a stump grinder that slices the trunk of a tree into sawdust at a home in Waterville on Monday.
Colby College student Michelle Boucher gets a pie in the face, one of many, during a "stress busters" event at the Waterville campus on Wednesday.
Michelle Babbitt and Marlo Kendall survey the Kennebec River on Sunday from the boat landing in Richmond. The Topsham couple took in the tide while waiting to buy some beer-brewing items at a local business.
Isaac Cote, 8, draws back his compound bow Monday while doing target practice at his home in Monmouth. The archer said he likes to notch a tight pattern with the arrows he fires at a target behind his home.
Sue and Carson Nile pick up bags of litter along Peltoma Avenue in Pittsfield near the town transfer station on Tuesday. The couple said they live nearby and twice a year pick up trash.
William C. Robichaud Sr., founder, president and CEO of Collaborative Consulting, announced that his company will soon open the Collaborative Waterville Delivery Center in the Hathaway Center during an announcement at Colby College in Waterville on Wednesday.
A woman passes by the winter scene on display in the window of the REM Center on Main Street in downtown Waterville on Friday. As unseasonably warm temperatures grace the area, snow enthusiast are forced to wait a bit longer for the white gold.
Members of the Colby College ski team work out on the lone ribbon of man-made snow at Quarry Road Recreational Area in Waterville on Thursday. Unseasonably warm temperatures have kept the snow away and are making it difficult to produce snow.
Referee Neal Crocker tosses the ball as Hall-Dale’s Josh Berberich, left, and Winthrop’s Anthony Owens get ready to jump at the first tip-off of the season last Friday at Penny Memorial Gym in Farmingdale.
Genevieve Cox, of Portland, and Brandon Keith-Hardy, visiting from California, replace canoes atop their vehicles Sunday after paddling the Sheepscot River from Whitefield to Alna with friends. Several groups of canoeists used the river, which is still open water because of unseasonably mild temperatures.
A holiday parade passes Johnson Hall on Saturday on the way towards the judges’ stand on Water Street in downtown Gardiner.