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Frigid air causes sea smoke Jan. 21 where the Androscoggin River runs between downtown Lewiston and Auburn. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
Deputy Chief Dale Doughty of the Minot Fire Department battles a blaze Jan. 26 at a mobile home at 327 North St. in Mechanic Falls. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Sarah Carter leads the wooden ski parade Jan 19 while on 12-foot Nordic skis during the annual Wooden Ski Day at Carter’s XC Ski Center at 786 Intervale Road in Bethel. Skiers from across New England, each bringing cherished wooden skis, flock to the event, held in partnership with the Maine Ski & Snowboard Museum in Carrabassett Valley. The celebration is coinciding this year with the museum’s opening of a new satellite exhibit at Carter’s XC Ski Center. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal
Luke Booker uses a leaf blower Jan. 22 to clear snow from customers’ snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles at Ames Outdoor Powersports at 50 Long Beach Road in Sabattus. “We have been staying plenty busy,” shop owner Josh Ames says of the repairs his staff members are doing for customers. And of the lack of snow, Ames says, “Everyone is wishful thinking.” Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
Chase Leonardo of Leavitt Area High School in Turner launches Jan. 22 from the starting block for his leg of the 200-yard medley relay at the YWCA Central Maine at 130 East Ave. in Lewiston. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Adelle Welch, a senior at Bates College, listens Jan. 20 to Erica Chenoweth deliver the keynote speech at the Peter J. Gomes Chapel during Martin Luther King Jr. Day events at the Lewiston college. Chenoweth is a political scientist and professor of public policy at the  John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Family members and friends enjoy snow tubing Jan. 20 on a hill behind Sherwood Heights Elementary School at 32 Sherwood Drive in Auburn. From left: Kayleigh Foss, Lennon Morin, Kristina Foss, Wilder Morin, Kasen Foss and Hailee Morin. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

A lifelong resident of Lewiston, Russ stumbled into photography as a college student working toward a career in psychology. His great-grandfather Louis B. Costello was the publisher of the Lewiston Daily...

Andree Kehn is a staff photographer who has lived in Lewiston for the past three years and has been a Greenwood resident for 20 years, on and off. She has worked full time for the Sun Journal since 2015....

Daryn Slover always pulls for the underdog - what would you expect from someone that was raised in Cleveland and lives in Lewiston. He drinks cheap coffee and cheap beer so that he can afford to put his...