Racers competing in the Mountain Valley Conference Alpine ski championships are ferried up Black Mountain of Maine in Rumford on a trail groomer on March 3. Race and mountain officials decided to use the machine because the ski area lost power in the morning. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Buy this Photo

Spruce Mountain’s Jazmine Pingree pushes past Monmouth Academy’s Abby Flanagan to take a shot during a game at Spruce Mountain on March 5. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

Rebecca Blankenship walks with her son Avi on March 4 in Lewiston while looking for their dog, Miko, a 10-year-old red pitbull. She said she has lost the dog before and really hopes to find her again. “We love her so much, she is so worth it.” Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

Craig Saddlemire, coordinator of the Raise-Op Housing Cooperative, sits March 5 on a vacant parcel at Walnut and Howe streets where Raise-Op hopes to develop one of two nine-unit apartment buildings. The lot has been vacant since buildings there were demolished in 2015 and 2016. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

Liz Dieterich of Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School burns down Black Mountain during a giant slalom run at the KVAC girls championships in Rumford on March 4. Dieterich won the giant slalom competition in the morning and the slalom in the afternoon. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal Buy this Photo

Ryan Ciezynski waits March 2 in a cold parking garage in Lewiston for the bus that will take him home to Connecticut. Ciezynski visited his fiancé before catching the bus at the Oak Street bus station. “I love it here in the summer,” he said. “It’s cold in Connecticut, but not like this. I can’t wait for this bus to come.” Daryn Slover/Sun Journal Buy this Photo

Cooper St. Hilaire (13) and Keegan McLaughlin (31) comfort their teammate, Tanner Anctil, during the playing of the National Anthem Feb. 26. Anctil’s father, Scott Anctil, died the day before. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal Buy this Photo

Jack Gilbert of Spruce Mountain edges into a turn after whipping around a gate during the MVC Championships Giant Slalom race at Black Mountain on March 3. He finished 4th in the race. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Buy this Photo

Jane Huffman of Poland rides her quarter horse, Sweet Breezy May, up a trail in her yard while towing her riding partner and neighbor, Cadence Ferland, on Feb. 28. Ferland let her mother have a turn, and then gave her cousin’s dog, Trooper, an exciting ride. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal Buy this Photo