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Nikki Rioux carries a toy tractor Tuesday afternoon at the Kora Shrine Temple in Lewiston as she helps set up for the FEZtival of Trees, which opens to the public Friday. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
The helmet of Pvt. Jake Smith sits on top of his locker Wednesday at the new substation on Captain Bazinet Way in Lewiston. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Cast members perform Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” on stage for Auburn students in grades 3-6 on Nov. 14 in the Donald M. Gay Performing Arts Center at Edward Little High School in Auburn. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Stearns players Trevor VanDine, top left, and Lucas Pelkey hoist the Gold Ball for their fans Nov. 15 after the Minutemen beat Old Orchard Beach 20-18 in the eight-man Small School state championship in Auburn. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Lincoln Daisey of Stearns, right, pounces on a fumble by Old Orchard Beach’s Christopher Moody, left, with 1:11 left Nov. 15 in Auburn. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Camden Hills coach Chris Christie, left, gets drenched Nov, 15 at the end of the Windjammers’ win in the state final in Auburn. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Spruce Mountain fans cheer Nov. 15 during the eight-man Large School state championship game in Auburn. The Phoenix lost to Camden Hills, 52-26. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Alexah Borgoin covers her ears as a white pine is guided through a saw mill Thursday during a field trip for third graders of Carrie Ricker School at Smithfield Plantation in Litchfield. Students were also able to observe a logger who cut down trees marked for harvest, hear from Maine Forest Service foresters and then see how logs were cut into boards, all on the 106-acre plantation. (Libby Kamrowski Kenny/Staff Photographer)
A spill of hazardous material at a cannabis store drew a large emergency response to the intersection of Riverside and Broad streets in Auburn on Thursday. No injuries were reported but streets were blocked off nearby to drivers and police made an arrest. (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...

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...