The Mount View High School Chamber Singers under the direction of Rebecca Childs perform a concert on the fourth floor under the dome Tuesday in Maine State House in Augusta. Later that morning the 18 member group performed the national anthem at the start of the House of Representatives session. See a video of them singing at https://www.centralmaine.com/2020/01/15/kj-standalonemtviewsingers-0116.
John Compagna tells the story of his encounter with a fox outside his home Tuesday in Farmingdale. He killed the attacking fox that is being tested for rabies.
Cony's Luke Briggs, middle, looks for a teammate to pass to as he is double-teamed by Maranacook's Eljias Bergdahl, left, and Tim Worster on Saturday in Readfield.
Amie Kennedy holds up part of the "Her Flag" project Saturday after Marilyn Artus added Kennedy's Maine stripe to the bottom during an event at the Maine State Museum in the Augusta.
John Little, of Skowhegan, tags fisher pelts Thursday at the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife's regional biology office in Sidney. The trapper was applying permanent tags to the fur bearing critters inspected by state biologists that were harvested last fall.
Baker's Smelt Camps proprietor Richard Pottle hangs wires Friday to provide light to the 22 shacks he placed on the ice in Pittston. Pottle said there was more than 10 inches of ice beneath the fishing camps.
Donald Vannah, 86, crimps tire chains held by his neighbor, Chick Anair, at Vannah's farm Sunday in Litchfield. Vannah was prepping his 1957 Allis Chalmers tractor to operate on the snow.
Cony's Simon McCormick pushes the ball away from Medomak Valley's Patrick McKenney on Tuesday in Augusta.
Madison's Cameron Cobb, right, works the ball around Oak Hill defenders Gavin Rawstron, center, and Ramon Spearman on Monday in Madison.
Oakland Deputy Fire Chief Hardy Taylor, 82, who is retiring after 60 years of service, is pictured Monday with a historic Oakland fire helmet at his home in Oakland.
Emily Eckhardt, of Maine Grains, rolls her cart into the Augusta Civic Center on Thursday for the final day of Maine Agricultural Trades Show. The show was still going on despite the snow storm that closed schools, courts and the state Legislature.
Steve Smith, of Lisbon Falls, checks a flag Wednesday while fishing at sunset on Buker Pond in Litchfield. Buker and his wife, Pauline, took advantage of an early shift at work to fish later in the day together. A fish took Buker's bait but avoided the hook, he said.
St. John Catholic School on Friday in Winslow.
Baxter sits in the warmth of the Sidney water truck Thursday as firefighters from five departments battle a structure fire at 93 Bartlett Road in Sidney.
A Gardiner Public Works snowblower fills up a dump truck Thursday as crews clean snow from River Avenue in South Gardiner. The pile of snow down the center line had been cleared from sidewalks and roadside earlier by a road grader.
Rhiannon Alterio hikes up Church Street in Gardiner after shopping Thursday during a snowstorm. The professional dog sitter said she'd finished her morning canine duties.
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