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Lord Huron performs Aug. 2 on the Baxter stage during Back Cove Music and Arts Festival at Payson Park in Portland. The band headlined the first day of the inaugural two-day festival. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
Jackson Goguen, 12, makes a bubble Tuesday during Lewiston’s National Night Out at Lewiston Middle School on Central Avenue. The family-friendly community event is built around connecting youth with police to strengthen community, and was paired with Lewiston Summer Fun & Films along with a broad range of local entertainment and volunteers. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
Maine-formed band Weakened Friends performs Aug. 2 on the Baxter Stage during Back Cove Music and Arts Festival at Payson Park in Portland. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
Smoke from Canadian wildfires makes the sky over Lewiston appear in a blue-gray haze on Aug. 4, as seen looking north from the Cedar Street Bridge. The entire state was under an air quality alert issued by the National Weather Service, with particle pollution in the “unhealthy for sensitive groups” range. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer) 
Chickadee Aviation instructor Michael Gaines refuels a Cessna Skyhawk after a training flight Thursday at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport in Auburn. The company operates a flight school from the Auburn-Lewiston airport and offers scenic flights around the state. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
Pro wrestler Tony Atlas of Auburn flexes Thursday afternoon outside St. Mary’s d’Youville Pavilion in Lewiston, where he was visiting his wife. The 71-year-old Atlas was set to wrestle Saturday night at The Colisee in Lewiston as part of Limitless Wrestling’s Vacationland Cup show, which also includes the Hardy Boys and Tommy Dreamer. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
A pair of baby Boer goats nap in a pen Tuesday at the Topsham Fair. The fair runs through Sunday at the Topsham Fairgrounds off of Route 196.  (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
Christopher Paradis, a member of the Auburn-Lewiston Rotary Breakfast Club, waters flowers Friday as his wife, Zoanne, weeds gardens on the landing of Veterans Memorial Park along Main Street in Lewiston. Club members plant, water, weed and give tender loving care to the flowers in the park all year. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer) Russ Dillingham/City of Lewiston
A Clearwing moth fuels up on a flower Thursday afternoon at Barker Mill Arms apartment complex on Mill Street in Auburn. (Russ Dillingham/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...

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...