Photo by Ben McCanna
Caitlin Jordan of Alewives Brook Farm drags a hose past a field of planted corn to connect with an irrigation system. This year, after three very thirsty years, the Jordans are buying water from Portland Water District to irrigate their land.
Photo by Gregory Rec
The town of Castine was close to having none of its restaurants open for the summer season. A last-minute push by restaurateur Max Katzenberg, funded largely by local investors, has reopened Dennett’s Wharf under new and impressive ownership.
Photo by Shawn Patrick Ouellette
Chris Sale pitches four innings for the Sea Dogs, allowing one run and four hits. He struck out eight.
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Beachgoers crowd Old Orchard Beach near the pier on July 26.
Photo by Brianna Soukup
Sal Butcher, 7, jumps face first into the water at Kiwanis Community Pool on July 24.
Photo by Ben McCanna
Kathryn Hurst, an employee at the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland, holds Gus, a two-year-old Guinea pig who was surrendered to the shelter.
Photo by Derek Davis
Betsey Reinsborough of Yarmouth dances with her son, Leon Runyon, 2, while listening to The Wicked Good Band at the Yarmouth Clam Festival on Saturday. Reinsborough says that she grew up watching the band perform at the festival and remembers the lyrics to the songs.
Photo by Gregory Rec
Dan Cellucci is in the process of creating a cannabis grow operation in Warren using a rack system with energy-efficient LED lights. Cellucci estimated the cost of the lights to be about $240,000, some of which was offset by an Efficiency Maine rebate.
Photo by Brianna Soukup
Jeanie Cannell wipes a tear away inside of the van she her husband and step-daughter are living in at the turnpike service plaza, on July 20. She had just gotten off a shift at Cabela’s where she works full time. “I’m so tired of this,” she said through tears.
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Margaret Belanger gives her father Roger Cannell one of his multiple daily pills after waking up in the morning on July 21. Roger has bladder cancer and has chemotherapy once a week. He goes to physical therapy twice a week for injuries from a devastating fall that ended his 29-year career as a dump truck driver for Shaw Brothers Construction. He uses a wheelchair and cane to get around and is in constant debilitating pain.
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Jeanie Cannell and Margaret Belanger sit inside of the service plaza building after putting on their pajamas just after sunset. They have been living in their van, unable to find an affordable place to live.
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A friend who is helping the family in their search for affordable housing comforts Roger Cannell as he slumps over and begins to cry from his chronic pain as the sun rises above the service plaza on July 21. Roger said the pain is the worst in the morning after getting out of the cramped van. Since the Press Herald story ran on July 24, A GoFundMe for the family has raised thousands of dollars for them.
Photo by Shawn Patrick Ouellette
Kustansia Ounda of Portland gardens in her plot at the North St. Community Garden in Portland on July 1.
Photo by Derek Davis
There were fireworks and food trucks at the Eastern Promenade on July 4, but no music this year.
Photo by Shawn Patrick Ouellette
Athletes line up as they wait for their turn to begin the Tri for a Cure, with Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse as a backdrop Sunday. Tri For a Cure is an all-women’s triathlon that serves as a fundraiser for the Maine Cancer Foundation. More than 700 athletes participated in this year’s event.
Photo by Gregory Rec
Noah Bragg returns a shot during the men’s singles championship match with Eliot Potvin at the Yarmouth Clam Festival tennis tournament at Yarmouth High School on July 17. Potvin won the match, 6-0, 2-6, 6-2.
Photo by Derek Davis
Hai Pham of Old Orchard Beach leaps from his boat after pulling into the launch at Sebago Lake Station Landing in Standish as a storm rolls in on July 12.
Photo by Ben McCanna
Averi Baker of Hall-Dale High School takes a shot against the North team during the annual McNally Senior All Star Game, a field hockey game featuring 2022 high school grads at Thornton Academy in Saco.
Photo by Shawn Patrick Ouellette
Christine Burns Rudalevige’s Herbed Israeli Couscous with Herbs and Labneh photographed for the Press Herald’s weekly Green Plate Special.
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Wes and Rebecca Calkin of Washington, D.C. try to find cell service after taking an Uber ride to Fort Williams Park on July 14, only to find that the park was closed for the rest of the day. The park was closed because of a lobster bake event for the governors attending a three-day National Governors Association conference in Portland.
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Michael Beaudoin at his home on Cliff Island with Jewell Island seen in the distance. Beaudoin nearly died when his kayak capsized off Jewell Island last month. He was rescued by a lobsterman from the island and another man from Yarmouth and rushed to Maine Med.
Photo by Ben McCanna
Dominic Kane of Portland casts his line with a magnet tied to it into the Presumpscot River in Westbrook. The magnet fishers have pulled thousands of pounds of metal – bikes, shopping carts, railroad spikes, even a safe – out of the water. It’s fun, they say, and also cleans up the river.
Photo by Ben McCanna
Manase Climax, 6, of South Portland sits atop a climbing wall at Stone Street Playground in Portland during the Park and Play program on Wednesday. The free drop-in summer program offers children camp-like activities at parks and playgrounds every weekday at different parks throughout the city.
Photo by Derek Davis
Dover-Foxcroft will be celebrating its 100-year anniversary of the towns merging. After several unsuccessful attempts from 1916-1920, women got the right to vote, which proved to be a deciding factor. Ralph Lewis, 79, a longtime firefighter for Dover-Foxcroft who is now retired, walks along East Main Street on July 27.
Photo by Gregory Rec
Caleb Manuel reacts after making a birdie on the 14th hole in the final round of the Maine Amateur at Webhannet Golf Club in Kennebunk on July 14. Manuel won the tournament with a 207.
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