2011
Read MoreAllie Keene and Reagan, 8 mos., from Poland, take a walk with friends Tara Averill and her daughter, Aniston, 1, from Hartford, along the Riverwalk in Auburn Thursday morning. They usually walk in a different spot, but with Great Falls roaring, they decided on going to Auburn to walk and play at Bonney Park.
When Walton Elementary School second grader Ben Lavigne asked a representative at Cote Corporation if he could borrow a crane to show it to students in the school studying about building homes, his summer employer said he could take it and show it off. PreK student Sophie Sansoucy, 4, hangs out after a group photo was taken and they got a turn moving some of the levers on the crane.
Jami Childs of Poland, left celebrates a strike with her teammate, Samantha Marquis during Saturday's Big Brothers Big Sisters Bowl For Kids' Sake at Sparetime Recreation Center Center. The 15th annual fundraiser has grown so much that it takes place over two days to accomodate all the teams that want to participate. Hannah Goodenow and Amber Crocker of Freeport round out the Dolls with Balls team, former classmates that get together every year to continue the tradition that not only helps raise money for a good cause, but a good way to keep their friendship alive.
A worker from Abatement Professionals tears apart the elevator penthouse at the former Intown Manor, a three-and-a-half-story brick building built in 1892 and originally used as an orphanage before becoming a boarding house and finally an assisted living facility untill it closed in 2005. A nearly $8 million dollar project will restore the National Historic Register building and add 32 apartments for seniors. Standing in the Post Office Parking lot on break and watching the process, postal worker Mitch Caron tells a coworker about the time he and other workers were on the steps nearby when a bolt of lightning came down and "took a chunk out of the lightning rod on top of it. Scared the crap out of us."
Clifford Chase of Wilton exercises his three year old trotter around a muddy Farmington Fairgrounds that still has a ring of snow around the edges Wednesday morning. "We do this every day mud or not." said the energetic sulky driver, covered head to toe in mud. He was one of several racers out on the track preparing for the first day of harness racing at Scarborough Downs next Saturday, April 2.
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Scott Berube stays low as he flies past a gate on the race course at Lost Valley Sunday afternoon during the final race of the season for the Maine Ski Challenge. Lost Valley is one of several local ski areas that take part in the racing series where the top four individuals in each age category will advance to next weekend's state championship race at Black Mountain. Berube won today's race with the fastest overall time in any division.
Edward Little head varsity girls basketball coach Craig Jipson, right, and the rest of the team erupt at what they think is the end of the game during Monday night's KVAC championship game against Morse at Cony High School in Augusta. The clock still had a few more ticks left on it, but the Eddies celebrated again for real moments later.
Edward Little's Ian Therriault, left, and Bowne Leary, unseen at right, team up to strip the ball from Brunswick's Alex Ouellette during first half action of Monday night's game in Brunswick.
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Elva Harrison of Poland kisses one of 6 horses that got loose from the Puf and Pas Stable in Mechanic Falls after it got loose Thursday afternoon. When stable owner Kenny Sumner was at work, the race horses somehow got the gate opened and ran off. Harrison, police officers from Mechanic Falls and Androscoggin County Sheriff Officers as well as several other area residents helped corral the race horses.
Mechanic Falls police officer Alan Carr, left, Androscoggin County Deputy Jon Guay, center and Elva Harrison of Poland walk down Elm Street in Mechanic Falls after corraling these three horses near the intersection of Poland Corner Road over a mile away. While three of the six wayward hung around the farm, these three took off for a run down the road.
Kevin Cullenberg, right, a member of the Androscoggin Chapter of the Maine Society of Land Surveyors, points to the boot that was the joke of the day for the group spending Saturday afternoon at Gaslight Park in Lewiston. "It proves that we can get you to within a foot of where we measured." was Cullenberg's version. Arthur Montana, middle, and the others had their own rendition of the joke as they kicked up their heels in lawn chairs while waiting for people to talk to as they set out to promote the public service surveyors contribute. All across the country, groups spent Saturday afternoon setting up a first ever simultaneous nationwide Global Positioning System (GPS) survey, conducted by members of the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS) to commemorate National Surveyors Week and promote the numerous benefits of GPS. Using dual frequency receivers, groups all over the country set a mark into the ground to designate their spot and upload it into the global position system to become a reference point for future surveys.
Kiesha Edwards, 2, of Lewiston peeks up at her friend Jaymie Day, 7 of Lewiston at the Toy Library in Lewiston Saturday morning during the Second Annual Toy Library SHAREcenter Trykes for Tykes Fundraiser. Trycle's and other modes of children transportation were provided to pedal and push around in a circle in the middle of the gym as other activities went on nearby. Raffles, food and drinks were provided with a karate demonstration, puppet show, dance with face painting
Between the snow falling from the sky and what is being driven by the wind from his snowblower, Jeff Cressey of Lewiston is awash in snow as he clears the driveway of his neighbor on Blake Street in Lewiston Friday afternoon towards the end of the snowstorm that blanketed the state overnight and into the morning, causing schools and businesses to shut down for the day.
Lewiston Public Works Department employee Reggie Poussard fills one of a number of potholes on Strawberry Avenue in Lewiston Thursday morning. Public Works crews throughout the state are busy this time of year repairing damaged roads as the changing tempatures create havoc with the pavement. "We used over 8 tons of cold patch on Lincoln Street alone so far this year." says Poussard. He also quipped, "the worst part about it is the traffic. People complain about the potholes, but when we stop to patch them, they get mad because they have to slow down or stop for a second before going around us. You just can't win."