Carol and Stephen Giuffrida exit the barn at Bailey's Orchard in Whitefield on Monday after paying for the bag of apples they picked. The self pick farm is open for visitors, owner Rod Bailey said, by observing all COVID-19 restrictions, including social distancing and the wearing masks. An exterior scale will greet pickers outside the barn who plan to visit any day through October to have their fruit weighed.
Freshly made apple cider doughnuts are one of the treats for shoppers Sunday at The Apple Farm's barn store in Fairfield.
Kinli Strout, 3, leads her father, Kenny, right, and mother, Kayla, left, and friends Brianna Thibodeau and Jared Cleaves through the gates of the Windsor fairgrounds Monday in her electric car. The Windsor Fair was canceled along with most other fairs in Maine this year due to COVID-19 restrictions. The empty fairgrounds was a good place to explore as a potential venue for the 2021 marriage of Cleaves and Thibodeau, the adults said. The youngest Strout burned up the unoccupied fairway and stalls with her toy VW bus as the adults trailed behind.
Cony volleyball players compete in an intrasquad scrimmage Thursday at the high school. Cony set up an outside court as playing indoors is prohibited during the pandemic, according to revised safety guidelines from the Maine Principals' Association.
Principal Teresa Beaudoin greets students coming off the bus for first day of school Thursday at Farrington Elementary School in Augusta.
Maine Arts Academy students wait on a bus Tuesday before leaving school following their first day back to class at the Sidney campus.
Third-grader Madeleine Filitis, left, second-grader Emma Karnes and prekindergartener Isabel Filitis walk hand in hand Tuesday with a group families for first day of school at Hall-Dale Elementary School in Hallowell.
Sen. Susan Collins checks in with Crooked Face Creamery at the Grist Mill on Friday in Skowhegan.
Martin Schelasin, with Thomas College, checks the temperature of new students arriving on campus Saturday in Waterville.
Daniel Guarino, of Wakefield, Massachusetts, swabs his nose Saturday during a COVID-19 test at the testing site at Thomas College in Waterville.
A cyclist rides along Quarry Road below the I-95 overpass in Waterville on Thursday.
A butterfly comes to a stop Thursday on a sunflower in Benton.
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