Members of the Cony field hockey team exercise during practice on Wednesday at Cony High in Augusta.

Katherine Morse harvests blackberries Tuesday in a patch across from her farmhouse in Whitefield. Morse said the fruit is ripening slowly in the warm, dry weather.

Members of the Winthrop/Monmouth football team stretch during football practice Monday in Winthrop.

A paddle boarder takes in the sunset on Flagstaff Lake at Bigelow Preserve in Stratton on Monday.

Owen Clark takes a hand-off Sunday from his father, Brian, while playing in Waterville. Owen, 2, had the luxury of choosing from among the balls he received as gifts on his birthday Saturday.

Sue Clain, from left, Wendy Wingate, Helen Oliver, Dorothy Merrick and Kate Sanborn look around on Saturday in the renovated 1896 reading room at Lithgow Public Library in Augusta. Oliver and Merrick, who both live in The Inn at City Hall, are longtime library patrons and were the first inside after the ribbon-cutting ceremony reopening the library.

Winthrop's Reggie Lenfestey, left, and Finley Ward compete in the 1,500-meter run during the youth summer state track and field championship meet at the newly dedicated Taylor Harmon Track in Augusta.

Harold Lovejoy tells farmer George Joseph on Thursday he can carry his own blueberries from the patch at Steep Hill Farm in Fayette. Joseph and his wife, Brenda, raise highbush blueberries and raspberries. Lovejoy and his wife, Marjorie, have been friends with the Josephs since the couple opened the farm to fruit pickers

Troopers with the Maine State Police tactical team and Somerset County sheriff's deputies take an armed man threatening suicide in to custody after a standoff in the parking lot at Wal-Mart in Palmyra on Friday.