CAP.cutline_standalone:Deborah Plengey cleans up around flowers at Al’s Certified Auto Repair just before a storm starts Tuesday in Augusta. Plengey and a co-worker from Raven Tree Gardens had just planted 1,000 tulip bulbs around the State Street business.
Fort Fairfield Elementary School students Alex Oakes, left, 11, and Chase Coiley, 10, take a turn working at the results station during the mock election rally and tally event on Wednesday at the Augusta Armory.
Beekeeper Tony Bachelder picks up pieces of a hive Tuesday that a black bear destroyed at Stevenson’s Strawberries in Wayne.
CAP.cutline_standalone:Racers climb a switchback Sunday during the Tread Fest mountain bike competition at the Bond Brook Recreation Area in Augusta. More than 150 people registered to compete in the event, which featured trail races extending as long as 21 miles, according to bike race director Chris Riley. Races were sponsored by Augusta Trails and the Central Maine chapter of the New England Mountain Bike Association.
Striking employees walk the picket line on Friday in front of the FairPoint Communications office at corner of State and Green streets in Augusta as an Augusta police officer stands beside a cruiser in the office’s parking lot.
Staff photo by Joe Phelan Lawrence's Kelsey Dessent tees off at the 18th hole of the Arrowhead course at Natanis during the girls state championship Saturday afternoon.
Staff photo by Andy Molloy Cony sophomore Anne Guadalupi arrives at the finish lineSaturday at the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference cross country meet in Augusta. Guadalupi won the KVAC A girls race in 20 minutes, 30.6 seconds.
Staff photo by Michael G. Seamans night at Keyes Field in Fairfield.
Cony running back Reid Shostak, left, gets tripped up by Gardiner defenders Joe Berglund, front, and Matt McKenna during the annual rivalry game Friday night at Hoch Field in Gardiner.
Two people walk past brightly colored fall foliage as they cut across the University of Maine at Augusta campus on Thursday as a nor’easter blasts the state with wind and rain.
Peter Violette, of New England Steam Corp., inspects the Old 470 steam locomotive smoke box Monday in Waterville. The Waterville landmark is expected to be restored and eventually operative.
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