SNAPSHOT: Sweet corn crop

SAME PRICE: Wendy Elvin carries a basket of sweet corn that she harvested Tuesday with her father, Elmer, in a field at the family’s Readfield farm.

SNAPSHOT: Good painting weather

STRIP IT: Roy Twist, of Mount Vernon, strips paint Monday from a pole fence in Farmingdale. “If it weren’t for the breeze, it would be stifling,” Twist said.

SNAPSHOT: Swinging into August

LETTING GO: Alanna Huling, 11, drops into Mill Pond in Wayne on Monday as Hannah Burr, 11, left, swims to shore. Huling’s sister, Hannah, 8, right, waited for her turn on the rope swing while the girls, of Franklin, Mass., took a dip together before having some ice cream during their summer vacation.

SNAPSHOT: Practice fire

TRAINING EXERCISE: Manchester firefighters light a flare Wednesday night before igniting a car at Clark’s Cars & Parts in Hallowell. Firefighters from Manchester and Hallowell practiced extrication techniques on two vehicles before extinguishing a blaze in a third vehicle during a joint training exercise. Clark’s donated the cars.

SNAPSHOT: Stacking the blues

Ed Merilorme, of Waterville, stacks crates of blueberries he helped harvest Sunday with a tractor at a barren in Dresden. Commercial pickers are moving across Maine this week to pick the fruit as the season commences.

SNAPSHOT: On the level

Cobbossee Watershed District intern Hannah Shute checks the gauge Thursday that measures the level of Annabessacook Lake in Monmouth as kayakers paddle beneath the bridge spanning it.

SNAPSHOT: Raspberry Rehn

SNAPSHOT: Fore and fawn

A fawn whitetail deer leaps across a fairway Monday during the first day of the New England Women’s Golf Association Championship at Natanis Golf Course in Vassalboro.  Over 70 of the top female amateur golfers in New England are teeing up to determine the top player in play through Wednesday.  Play resumed immediately after the […]

SNAPSHOT: Hay toss

Duane Whitten, center, tosses a square bale of hay Sunday over the head of his brother, Dwight, left, while loading a trailer belonging to Wayne Lewis, right. Lewis, of Chesterville, collected a 100 bales of fresh hay from the Manchester farm belonging to Maynard Whitten, Dwight’s and Duane’s father. 

SNAPSHOT: Making it personal

A personal water craft zooms across Maranacook Lake on Thursday afternoon in Winthrop. Today should be another good day to be out on the water as the weather forecast is for mostly sunny skies with high temperatures in the low 80s.