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Marshwood players celebrate July 9 after defeating Andy Valley to earn the Cal Ripken 8U baseball state championship game at Auburn Suburban Little League Complex in Auburn. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
How about a sweet treat to go with the heat? From left, Knistaly Manuel, Sadah Mateus and Witchaly Jose take the first bites of their ice pops July 7 at Municipal Outlet Beach in Auburn. The temperature was nearing 90 degrees with high humidity during the late afternoon. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/ Staff Photographer)
Emily Bingelis arranges flowers that she and her friends picked July 10 at Goss Berry Farm on Elm Street in Mechanic Falls. The farm has a few flowers to pick, but it’s peak raspberry picking season now. Blueberries will be ready to pick later next week. The farm is open seven days a week starting at at 8 a.m. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Frank’s Restaurant & Pub owner Camden Poisson pours a tall glass of Moxie on July 9 in Lisbon. “It’s pretty big for Lisbon, it’s probably the biggest thing we do here,” he said of Moxie Festival. Poisson planned a Moxie-filled menu with drinks and food using the soft drink as an ingredient, from smoked meats, sauces and jams. (Libby Kamrowski/Staff Photographer)
Taylor Pond Yacht Club instructor Lilly Merritt, left, works with student Peyson Choiniere while co-instructor Jack Martel works with Henry Johannes during a swim lesson July 9 on Taylor Pond in Auburn. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Construction workers put the finishing touches on the multiunit Wedgewood housing project July 9 between Pine and Walnut streets in downtown Lewiston. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
A permanently piercing stare is visible July 8 from Lisbon Street looking toward Park Street as the product of a three-part mural by Jared Goullette in downtown Lewiston. Goullette goes by the name The Color Wizard, and according to his online portfolio, the mural is simply titled “Consolidated Communications Mural #2” for the building it occupies. (Libby Kamrowski/Staff Photographer)
Aubrey Caron, 3, shows off her giraffe balloon animal she got July 4 from the Liberty Festival in Great Falls Plaza in Auburn. (Anna Chadwick/Staff Photographer)
Wylder Demers-Dube attends the Lewiston/Auburn Liberty Festival July 4 at Veterans Memorial Park in Lewiston. (Anna Chadwick/Staff Photographer)
Diane Madden mailed this postcard, seen July 10 in Norway, when she was 14 from Washington, D.C., not knowing it would take more than half a century to arrive at its destination in South Portland, though it’s back in her possession now. Madden said it was the first significant out-of-area trip that she went on at that point in her life, and mailed the postcard to her grandmother, plus one other to her parents, both to the same address. Though Madden’s family no longer owns the home at the original address, the current homeowner and a neighbor helped get in touch with her for the postcard’s return. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)

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...

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