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Bates fans celebrate a goal during the first half of an NCAA Division III men’s lacrosse tournament game May 8 in Lewiston. Bates advanced to the third round with a 17-9 win. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this imageXander Frey of Bates is knocked to the ground but looks to make a pass May 8 while defended by SUNY Cortland’s Connor Cosgrove during the first half of an NCAA Division III men’s lacrosse tournament game in Lewiston. Bates advanced to the third round with a 17-9 win. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this imageMegan Brown puts a cap on her service dog, Hazel, as she and other fellow University of Maine at Augusta graduates wait in a back room of the Augusta Civic Center on May 9 prior to the start of the ceremonies.
Purchase this imageGraduates file into the Augusta Civic Center for the start of commencement on May 9. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this imageKennebec Valley Community College graduates and guests walk through the parking lot of the Augusta Civic Center, as seen through a rain-soaked windshield, prior to the start of KVCC’s commencement May 9 at the Augusta Civic Center. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
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Ada Taylor, in attendance to support a graduating family member, hugs a stuffed animal May 9 during the ceremonies.
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Nancy Lever picks deadheads Monday morning in her garden on College Street in Lewiston. “This is the house I grew up in and have been planting all sorts of unique flowers for years. There are so many different varieties of daffodils that just keep multiplying. I’m always having to thin them out. But it keeps me busy and it’s a labor of love.” (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this imageBates College students Caitlin Davidson, left, and Charlotte Everhart work on a song they are writing Monday morning in the quad on the campus of the Lewiston college. “We are in a band, but the other member is in class now. We are working on the chorus of a song called ‘Suspending Reality.’ It’s a different way to say someone is lying,” Davidson said as she strummed away on her guitar as Everhart tried some different lyrics. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this imageA Phillips Fire-Rescue UTV drives down Dustin Road in Avon on Tuesday afternoon after searching for a Warden Service plane the crashed in the area. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this imageNick Upton and Keysha Wright walk down Lisbon Street in Lewiston on Wednesday afternoon. The couple were checking out restaurants in the area to host a rehearsal dinner for their upcoming wedding. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this imageShae Long tosses some fire starters she just split Wednesday morning into a pile at the home of her boyfriend, Taylor Dulac, in Greene. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this imageLeavitt’s Cayleigh Rose gets a hit during a game against Winslow on Wednesday at Leavitt Area High School in Turner. The Hornets earned a six-inning mercy-rule victory. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)Skylar, a kindergartner in the CLIMB program, plays with bubbles blown by Lewiston Regional Technical Center nursing student Isabella Snyder while waiting her turn for a checkup on Wednesday during a visit to the campus at Lewiston High School. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
A lifelong resident of Lewiston, Russ stumbled into photography as a college student working toward a career in psychology. His great-grandfather Louis B. Costello was the publisher of the Lewiston Daily...
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Libby Kamrowski Kenny is a staff photographer at the Sun Journal who came aboard in June 2025. She’s been in journalism longer than that though, as her prematurely graying hair can attest, starting as...
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