Chris Beam snowshoes along the edge of No Name Pond in Lewiston on Feb. 8. He lives nearby and tries to walk, ski, or snowshoe around the pond several times a week, he said. Beam said he tends to stick to the edge of the pond because he broke through the ice last year. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Buy this Photo

Mike Marshall of Marshall and Sons uses a snow scoop to remove snow from his client’s roof on Pikes Hill in Norway on Feb. 10. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal Buy this Photo

Jamie Roy of Harrisville, Rhode Island, gets some air during the UTV Pro Turbo race at the ArtWorx Blizzardcross event at Hemond’s MX & Offroad Park in Minot on Feb. 7. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal Buy this Photo

Oak Hill’s Ramon Spearman drives around Monmouth Academy’s Hunter Frost for a layup Feb. 11 in Wales. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

Ellen Umphrey plays with her children Gabriel Hassan, 5, and Zeina Hassan, 2, on Thursday, Feb. 11, at Sunnyside Park in Lewiston. “We try to get outside at least once a day,” she said. Gabriel Hassan is a prekindergarten student at Acadia Academy in Lewiston. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Garrett Starbird, left, and Axel Redstone sled down the hill Tuesday, Feb. 9, at Pettengill Park in Auburn. Starbird, 11, and Redstone, 11, are sixth-grade classmates at Washburn Elementary School in Auburn. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal Buy this Photo

Khalil Muhammad-Aceto, 7, of Lewiston skis along a trail Sunday, Feb. 7, during the second session of Outdoor Afro at the Auburn Nordic Ski Association trail system in Auburn. Muhammad-Aceto is a second grade student at Geiger Elementary School in Lewiston. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal Buy this Photo

Owen Bowie drops the blade on a snowblower while his mother, Allison Bowie, steers the tractor at the home of her father, Gary Simard, in Auburn on Feb. 10. Simard, right, watches his grandson Grayson Bowie sprinkle sand on the driveway. The Bowies, from Poland, were in the city for a dentist appointment and brought schoolwork to do before helping outside. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Buy this Photo

Bill Baker puts together an arrangement of a dozen red roses at Dube’s Flower Shop on Feb. 11. The Lewiston store and other flower shops across the world are filling orders for Valentine’s Day on Sunday. While Valentine’s Day is in the top five for flower sales each year, the record for sales on a single day in the US was the day after Elvis Presley died in 1977. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Buy this Photo


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