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Lisa Ward, right, splashes through puddles June 17 as she makes her way across the Worumbo Riverfront Events Center parking lot during the Maine Blues Festival in Lisbon Falls. “I can hear the music from my house, but it’s much better in real life,” she says. “I put these boots on and feel like jumping around in the puddles.” Ward is heading to the main stage to listen to one of dozens of bands playing at numerous venues throughout the downtown area. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Jim Caron buffs a 1937 Chevrolet on June 22 at Jim’s Auto Body & Repair at 197 Bartlett St. in Lewiston. Inside his business, Caron has a 1988 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS and a 2023 Chevrolet Corvette. Caron does a fair amount of work on older, classic and muscle cars because he fixes parts rather than replacing them. “You cannot replace parts on a car like this because of the car’s age,” he says. “Therefore, parts need to be fixed, and there are fewer shops that fix parts.” Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
Coach John Shea sits June 20 with Levi Tardif, left, Wallace Richardson, center, and Bentley Day during the Pop-Up Basketball Camp at the Hasty Community Center in Auburn. Shea is a 2022 graduate of Edward Little High School in Auburn and plays basketball for the University of Maine Black Bears. He and Wyatt Hathaway, a 2021 graduate of Leavitt Area High School in Turner, who plays for Central Maine Community College in Auburn, held a three-day camp for elementary and middle school students. Shea returns to the University of Maine in two weeks for training camp. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
Confetti falls June 21 on Kat Sherbinski, 12, of Otisfield and her parents Matthew and Jennifer during a scavenger hunt at the Central Maine Power Co. Service Building in Lewiston. Sherbinski gathered clues and completed a puzzle that let her know her wish to have a pool installed at her family’s house would be coming true through Make-A-Wish Maine. When the completed puzzle revealed “Happy Wish Day,” the confetti fell. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
Haven Keach, 10, of Mechanic Falls reels in a fish June 19, encouraged by her cousin, Avree Tardiff, 10, of Oxford at Pettengill Park in Auburn. The cousins are visiting the park with their grandparents Craig and Sandy Tardiff of Oxford. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
Groups of women took off from the starting line June 18 to conquer the Muddy Princess-Maine 5K obstacle course at Hemond’s MX & Offroad Park on Woodman Hill Road in Minot. The course for all sizes, ages and fitness levels emphasizes fun, not competition, and promotes empowerment and discovering boundaries. See sunjournal.com to watch a video of the fun. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Piper Carter-Veilleux, 4, plays among the bubbles June 21 before the kickoff of the Lewiston Summer Fun & Films series at Simard-Payne Memorial Park. The popular summerlong event rotates through several of the city’s parks, bringing with it an outdoor movie, a bubble machine, karate demonstrations, free popcorn and other activities. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal
Ridge Dionne of Saint Dominic Academy plays to the crowd June 21 after getting the first hit in the Class D state championship game against Bangor Christian School, at Mansfield Stadium in Bangor. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal
Susan Capella of New Portland watches her grandchildren play June 23 in the Carrabassett River, in the shadow of the Wire Bridge in New Portland. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

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...

Andree Kehn is a staff photographer who has lived in Lewiston for the past three years and has been a Greenwood resident for 20 years, on and off. She has worked full time for the Sun Journal since 2015....

Daryn Slover always pulls for the underdog - what would you expect from someone that was raised in Cleveland and lives in Lewiston. He drinks cheap coffee and cheap beer so that he can afford to put his...

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