Jillian Smith, 8, performs a handstand Sunday in the front yard of her family's farm in Litchfield. Smith recently started learning gymnastics to supplement her softball game.
The Gardiner Public Library is framed Tuesday in a window as Roger Bintliff installs a lamp in a Water Street storefront that he's renovating into a coffee shop.
Sen. David Woodsome, R-North Waterboro, left, Rep. Seth Berry, D-Bowdoinham, Gov. Janet Mills and Fourunat Mueller, co-founder of Revision Energy, celebrate Tuesday after Mills signed L.D. 91 An Act to Eliminate Gross Metering at Rocky's Stove Shoppe in Augusta. The 83 solar panels provide 33,400 kilowatt hours, enough to power the store, two warehouses and three homes, according to the shop's manager Ashley Gaslin.
Ted Elliott, of Augusta, hikes with poles Tuesday on the snow-covered dirt road leading to Jamie's Pond in Hallowell. Elliott said the conditions — dry with a mild temperature — were perfect for a constitutional in nature.
Former congressman Bruce Poliquin, listens to a question on the merits of ranked-choice voting during a public discussion in the Page Commons Room at Cotter Union in Waterville on Tuesday.
Maine State Troopers salute as the body of Det. Benjamin Campbell is escorted Wednesday to the State Medical Examiners Office in Augusta. Campbell was killed earlier in the day in an auto accident in Hampden.
State troopers comfort each other Wednesday evening after escorting the body of Detective Benjamin Campbell to the Medical Examiner's Office in Augusta.
Isaiah Carter, an Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School senior, tries out the excavator simulator in the Kennebec Valley Community College booth during the 19th annual Associated Builders and Contractors of Maine craft championships on Wednesday at the Augusta Civic Center. There were 1,687 students and staff from 70 high schools or career technical education centers across the state in attendance. There were more than 55 vendors and demonstrations where students could try welding, masonry and other trades.
Jessica Lake, playing Glinda in "The Wizard of Oz," flies through the scene in a bubble during rehearsal Wednesday at the Waterville Opera House in Waterville.
Firefighters spray down any remaining hot spots at 4:32 p.m. Thursday after putting out a house fire at 184 Carver Road in Monmouth.
Casey Bancroft takes the tags off plants in the booth of his family's business, Bancroft Landscaping, on Thursday at the Augusta Civic Center. The business is one of the 60 vendors that are part of the 46th annual Manchester Lions Club Home and Garden Show, which runs through this weekend.
Cory Ridlon fishes in Jug Stream from the Martin R. Hovey Memorial Dam on Thursday in Monmouth.
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