A GIFT FOR THE CHILDREN: Dan Connolly, left, and Glenn Murphy load up cases of backpacks and food from the Feed The Children that were given for home-schooled children’s use Friday afternoon at the E.J. Prescott office in Gardiner. Connolly, a Gardiner Area High School guidance counselor, said they were distributing 960 backpacks that were […]

FINISHING UP: Anthony Tafuri, of Pro Point Restoration, paints on chemicals and uses a torch to add a patina to the recently cleaned plaques on the Civil War monuments Tuesday in Augusta’s Memorial Circle. Pro Point, a company from Pittsfield, N.H., has been working for about a month on repointing the stones and cleaning and […]

POLITICAL LESSONS: State Rep. Maeghan Maloney, D-Augusta, speaks Tuesday to a group of visiting European students in the State House’s Welcome Center in Augusta. The group from Denmark and some Baltic states toured the building and then spent the afternoon hearing from speakers about the American political system.

HANDS-ON LEARNING: Ruby Dufour, 3 of Winthrop, holds a photovoltaic cell to a light bulb that powers the spinning fan in her other hand Wednesday morning at the Maine Energy Education booth during the Earth Science Day at the Maine State Museum in Augusta. About 1,000 visitors checked out the 15 displays, such as gold […]