Camp councilor Hadeel Alsaleh, top, laughs as camper Lujane Aljendi puts a water over councilor Aiden Sites during Kennebec Valley YMCA day camp on Wednesday at Camp KV in Readfield. It was part of a comedy quiz where the councilors were asked questions and if they got it wrong would get a bucket of water poured over themselves.
Caroline McKee, 8, points out a potential customer to her brothers Alistair, 8, center, and Charlie, 5, on Sunday at the refreshment stand they operated beneath a sun umbrella at their Hallowell home. The twins and younger sibling said they made 1 in two hours with their variety of lemonade, iced tea and water with the temperature in the upper 80s.
Jill Nutter places a dollop of fresh whipped cream Saturday as she makes strawberry shortcakes during the 72nd annual Washington Strawberry Festival at the Washington fire station.
Cyclists cast long shadows as they head north on the Kennebec River Rail Trail around 8:06 a.m. Friday in Farmingdale. The 6.5-mile trail runs through Hallowell and Gardiner between Augusta and Gardiner.
Robert Abbey weeds around a tree on Church Street Friday in downtown Gardiner. Abbey is a volunteer with the Gardiner Main Street's Streetscape Team that takes care of plants in downtown and the boat launch.
Logan Farr and other workers paint a flat Thursday in the Theater at Monmouth scene shop in Monmouth. Their project will be taken across Main Street to Cumston Hall where it will be used in a production of "Hamlet" that will open July 19. For more information see http://theateratmonmouth.org.
Kiersten Savage, pokes a hole through plastic to plant another of the hundreds of purple brocollini transplants on Wednesday at Dig Deep Farm in Vassalboro.
Capital Area catcher Isaac Hayden tags Somerset's Brayden Mayo at home during a Babe Ruth baseball game Thursday in Augusta.
Abigail Borge, of Somersworth, N.H., takes a leap in to the water Wednesday at Moxie Falls in West Forks on Wednesday.
Matthew Northrup waits for his family's herd of dairy cows to walk into the barn for the morning milking Sunday at his farm in Whitefield. Northrup took over the farm that his uncle, Stanley Tibbetts, operated for 63 years, when the elder farmer died in 2017.
Umpires take a break in the shade as they wait for the second game of a double header to start at Colby College on Tuesday, July 9, 2019.
Skowhegan Area High School pitcher, Sidney Ames, poses for a portrait Tuesday in Skowhegan.
Gardiner first baseman Blake Caron falls backwards trying to catch a pop fly off the bat of Waterville's Tom Labbe in an 11U Cal Ripken state tournament game at Purnell Wrigley Field in Waterville on Saturday.
Members of the Peking Acrobats spin plates on sticks in unison Saturday during a performance at the Waterville Opera House.
Kathy Lee, plays the piano during the Atlantic Music Festival Saturday in Lorimer Chapel at Colby College in Waterville.
Augusta second baseman Jacob Brown (3) dives for a ground ball in a Tuesday game against Skowhegan at Colby College in Waterville.
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