Jared Barter retrieves a cast he made from a dam Wednesday on Cobbossee Lake in Monmouth. Barter, of Albion, and his boss, Ryan Wilson, took advantage of above-freezing temperature to snag a brown trout after processing chickens in Gardiner.
Carl Johanson drives his team of Bay Belgians that pulled a sleigh across produce fields at his family's farm in Dresden on Tuesday. Johanson offers guests at the Goranson Farm sleigh rides "whenever there is snow," said his brother. Temperatures reached a high in the 20s on Tuesday but dropped into the single digits and below this week.
Saray Buck arranges place settings for firefighters Monday on the shift of her husband, Mike, at the new North Station in Augusta. Saray Buck worked a 12-hour shift as a nurse at the Togus veterans' hospital before cooking Christmas dinner for firefighters and their families.
Phillip, left, and Dekan Dumont, 6, push snow off a skating pond Wednesday at the Trail Less Taken Farm in Vassalboro. "I love it," the elder Dumont said of the cold. "I like four seasons."
A lone pedestrian walks down lower Main Street on Monday as a major winter storm barrels through Waterville.
Cross country skiers meander Tuesday through the pastures of Oaklands Farm in Gardiner. Fresh snow and plummeting temperatures created excellent conditions for a mixture of powder and crust for those venturing out on skis this week.
Kayla Clifton gives her 8-month-old baby a kiss Friday while at her transitional apartment at the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter in Waterville.
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