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Cielo Hackney, top, and his brother Enoah encourage their frog, Fern, to jump Thursday afternoon during the annual Frog Jumping Contest at the Blueberry Festival at Town Cove Park in Rangeley. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)

Luke Hinojosa, on vacation with his family from New York, holds his frog, Blaster, on Thursday afternoon during the annual Frog Jumping Contest at the Blueberry Festival at Town Cove Park in Rangeley. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)

Helley Arington runs toward Rangeley Lake on Thursday morning with a net to try to catch a frog to enter into the annual Frog Jumping Contest during the Blueberry Festival at Town Cove Park in Rangeley. She was with her family on vacation from Massachusetts. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)

Lily Stevens watches as her frog, Fred the Second, jumps Thursday afternoon during the annual Frog Jumping Contest at the Blueberry Festival at Town Cove Park in Rangeley. Fred’s three jumps were the longest of the competition. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)

A frog floats in a child’s bucket Thursday morning before the annual Frog Jumping Contest at the Blueberry Festival at Town Cove Park in Rangeley. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)

Phyllis Archambault, left, pushes her grandchildren Thursday morning in Rangeley Town Cove Park during the annual Blueberry Festival in Rangeley. With Archambault are Aliza, Adrian and Amaya Luneau, on vacation from Vermont. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)

Cielo Hackney looks for frogs Thursday in Rangeley Lake in preparation for the Frog Jumping Contest during the Blueberry Festival at Town Cove Park in Rangeley. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)

Frog Jumping Contest organizer Elizabeth Pimentel, middle left, and volunteer Juno Knox tabulate results to establish the winners in Thursday’s Frog Jumping Contest during the Blueberry Festival at Town Cove Park in Rangeley. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)

Vendor tents line up Thursday at the Blueberry Festival at Town Cove Park in Rangeley. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)

Deb Favreau, left, and her husband, Dave, check out the carvings at John Hooper’s Fin, Fur, and Feather Carvings booth Thursday at the Blueberry Festival at Town Cove Park in Rangeley. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)

People relax on the public boat dock Thursday during the Blueberry Festival at Town Cove Park in Rangeley. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)

Volunteer Juno Knox, of Rangeley, measures a frog Thursday in preparation for the Frog Jumping Contest during the Blueberry Festival at Town Cove Park in Rangeley. (Russ Dillingham/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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