In photos: The best of Varsity Maine spring sports

Photo by Brianna Soukup/Press Herald York’s Cary Drake comes in first in the 800-meter run at the Class B State Track Championships at Freeport High School on June 3. Photo by Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Mt. Ararat’s Kennedy Lampert, foreground, gets a hug from teammate Alex Durant after Lampert hit an inside-the-park home run during a […]

In photos: The best of Varsity Maine winter sports

Photo by Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel Carrabec High School head basketball coach Erik Carey prepares his players for a game at Carrabec High School in Solon on Tuesday, January 17. Photo by Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel Ellsworth diver Kiera Springer completes her dive under the scrutiny of judges during the Class B girls swimming championships at […]

In photos: The best of Varsity Maine fall sports

Photo by Ben McCanna/Press Herald Scarborough’s Ali Mokriski, left, and Lana Djuranovic celebrate after Djuranovic scored a header off Mokriski’s corner kick to win in double overtime against Brunswick in the Class A girls’ soccer state championship. Photo by Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Press Herald Cheverus’s Joe Osei, left, celebrates with teammate Elijah Timlin after Timlin scored […]

In photos: A look inside the lives of Maine’s parent caregivers

Families with medically fragile children hope that a bill awaiting votes in the Maine House and Senate will pass and allow parent caregivers to receive the same MaineCare compensation that hired caregivers get. Heather Johnson and Andrea Dole are mothers of children who need constant care and, as a result, can’t work themselves. Here’s a look at a small part of their lives.

Photos by staff photographer Sofia Aldinio

In photos: After some dustings, snow finally makes clean sweep over Maine

Winter made itself known slowly this year, with only a few light snows by the time the season officially began. By then, some of us were already muttering that Maine winters as we once knew them were over.
That all changed in recent days, with storm after storm blanketing everything in white, and Press Herald photographers were there to chronicle the season’s first big performance.

2022 Photos Of The Year

The best photojournalists carefully observe the world. They notice the most authentic details and bring them to us in ways we are unable to forget.
Photographs by themselves may not be able to change the world or stop a war, but they can pinpoint what we have in common, what’s worth our investment, our hope, our struggle and our fight. They can help us see our surroundings more clearly. They can inspire us to action.
Here we share some of the best of the year from the photographers of the Portland Press Herald.

In photos: Lovely, dark and deep

As November and December days led to the solstice, the darkest evening of the year, Press Herald photographers borrowed from Robert Frost’s famous poem, ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,’ to find beauty in the dark and deep.

In photos: Lovable characters prowl South Portland neighborhood on Halloween

For the third year, pirates and princesses, dinosaurs and unicorns, witches and werewolves paraded through a few South Portland streets between Broadway and Highland, across from Mill Village. In 2020, the first year of the pandemic, Megan Honeycomb-McDonald and Elliott Pitts wanted kids in their neighborhood to have a Halloween. They chose an outdoor Halloween parade that would give everyone a chance to see each other, while keeping a safe distance. It was informal, and fun and continues in a world that has since opened up. Meet a few of the kids, big and small, from the neighborhood. They stopped by for a photo, in a pop-up studio in my driveway. Photos by Press Herald Photo Editor Michele McDonald

Photos: Maine shows off in the fall

Our state, looking glorious in the colors of autumn.

In photos: Two families, one farm for three generations

In Cape Elizabeth, the Maxwells have been farming the land for nine generations. The Rodriguezes have joined them for the last three.