Gov. Paul LePage discusses domestic violence Monday during a lighting ceremony at the Blaine House in Augusta. A purple light will shine on the governor’s official residence for a month to raise awareness about domestic violence and 40 candles will be kept lit in the windows.

Farmhand Mike Christie lugs a newborn bull calf Monday from a pasture at a farm in Richmond . . .

Zack Dionne, 15, drives his ATV to cover Monday at Fisher Farm in Vassalboro ahead of an approaching thunderstorm . . .

  Department of Marine Resources technician Josh Noll, right, releases an alewife Tuesday as his colleague, Derik Lee, checks the inside of an auger trap anchored beneath the dam on the Sheepscot River at Head Tide Village in Alna.  The scientists were sampling fish species to determine how many Atlantic salmon are migrating through the […]

Game Warden Steve Allarie along with Litchfield and Gardiner firefighters responded to a call of two eagles that became entangled on a tree while brawling in Litchfield. They were preparing to climb up and remove the birds when they broke free.  One eagle flew away and the authorities rescued the other following a foot chase […]

  Dwight Babcock, of Chelsea, retrieves a streamer Monday while fly fishing for Brown Trout in Cobbossee Stream in Gardiner. Babcock said he had only a few strikes but was excited to be standing in moving water before the arrival of spring. 

  An American Robin collects a berry Sunday morning beneath a fruit tree in Augusta. Flocks of the thrushes that reside across North America are often detected in the late winter stripping fruit from limbs. 

  McGee Construction employee Scott Votra erects a sign Monday in front of the former YMCA building in Augusta as a colleague demolishes the building. The owner of the 30,000-square-foot Augusta building, Lon Walters, received a permit to demolish the 1914 building in 2008, but he delayed demolition in hopes other arrangements could be made […]