SNAPSHOT: Round up

Megan Kelley walks through the herd of horses Thursday in the 100 acre pasture at Maine Lee Morgan Horse Farm in Manchester during the afternoon inspection of the equines. Proprietors Trudie Lee and Deborah Plengey check on the four Morgans and ten Icelandic grazing in the fields twice a day, often with the assistance of their neighbors, Megan Kelley, 9, and her brother, Derek, 12.

SNAPSHOT: Windsor Fair 4-H equestrian

Katelyn MacMaster, left, hands Rayelyn Spencer a ribbon today during the 4-H horse show at the Windsor Fair.

SNAPSHOT: Center court skater

Aryan Das, 6, skates across center court Monday at Williams Playground in Augusta.

Blue star for returning Augusta police officer

Augusta Police Officer Eric Dos Santos holds the service star that Deputy Chief Jared Mills, left, gave him after removing it from the department’s sign Monday at the station in Augusta.

Dos Santos, who has been with the department since 2006, is a captain with the Maine National Guard and the commander of the 488th Military Police Company, which began a year-long deployment to Afghanistan in June 2012.

Augusta police hung the blue star in December as a public notice that one of its officers was serving in combat. Monday was Dos Santos’ first day back at work.

Augusta Police Deputy Chief Jared Mills said Dos Santos will go through a three-month re-acclimation process, beginning with work in an administrative role.

“We are so happy to have officer Dos Santos back home with our department,” Mills said. “We could not be more proud of his service to our country during his deployment, and we have always been in full support of the work he does with the Guard.”

SNAPSHOT: Down the line

Lillian Palleschi takes down the laundry Thursday at her family’s Monmouth farm.

SNAPSHOT: Monmouth transfer station

Trudie Lee picks deadhead flowers Thursday beneath a sign at the Monmouth Transfer Station.

PHOTO: The Perseid metor shower show goes on

A meteor blazes across the northeast sky above Hallowell on Monday at the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower.

SNAPSHOT: Eaglet rescue

District Game Warden Steve Allarie carries an eaglet today, that he captured on the banks of the Kennebec River in Chelsea.

SNAPSHOT: Overcast caster

Mathias Deming, of Winthrop, casts today on the Kennebec River in Hallowell while fishing a buddy.

SNAPSHOT: Cucumber stack

Roy Harrington stacks cucumbers that he dipped in water at the farm stand next to his family’s plot in Manchester on Sunday.