To the books in Norwich

Mary Ryan, left, walks from her Norwich home with her grandson Leevy Appleby, 4, of Strafford, to the Norwich Public Library recently.

Brush fire in Cornish

As Cornish Fire Department trucks arrive, a bicyclist pedals past a brush fire on Town House Road in Cornish on Wednesday. Cornish Fire Chief Mike Boutilier said the fire was caused by a downed powerline. Firefighters extinguished the fire by early evening.

Growing together

A growing fundraiser

Ledyard Charter School botany students, from left, Kiley Harvey, 18, Sabrina Lopez, 17, and RyaPospychala, 16, right, search for an information sheet on Morning Glories to give Timber Holmes, of Grantham, left, who bought starts of the flowers at their Mother's Day plant sale in Lebanon. The sale includes annual starts planted by the students and house plants they propagated. Proceeds from the sale, which continues through Friday, benefits the school as it prepares to install a lift between the first and second floors of its building.

A welcome home

Charlotte Lyman sweeps her steps and walkway last month in Hartford, her home where Lyman has lived for 49 years while raising her family. The farm originally belonged to her husband's grandparents.

Playdate

AshlieWeyhrauch, center, of Dayton, Ohio, untangles her dog Whitley, right, from her sister’s dog, Pogo, center, during an impromptu playdate with great daneRonin, left, who lives across the street, as neighbor Karen Corrigan, second from left, visits with the family, including Weyhrauch’s nephew Oskar Watson, 6, on April 18 in Lebanon. Weyhrauch jokingly said she was visiting her nephews and her sister, Tanya Watson, who happens to live there as well.

Full of energy

Anne Quirion, of Enfield, left, and her sister-in-law Heidi Knowles react as the engine of Quirion’s 2002 Ford Explorer turns over after they replaced the battery in West Lebanon on Thursday. When Quirion discovered the dead battery after work, she contacted Knowles, who drove her to purchase a replacement and a wrench and helped install it.

Front yard activism

Toy Storey clears leaves away from a patch of squills in her front yard while wearing a hand-drawn “Go Harvard” sweatshirt, which she made in support of the school’s response to demands from the Trump administration, at her home in Norwich on Tuesday. Storey, who is in her 90s, has traveled around the world and stays active through gardening, biking and volunteering. “I don’t even have a bucket list,” she said, noting that she lives a very full life without one.

Blowing out the competition

Meg Hopkins, of Tunbridge, right, reacts as a bubble gum bubble blown by BriellaBlondin, 7, of Chelsea, continues to grow during the first bubble blowing contest at the Tunbridge General Store last Friday. Each of four competitors were given one piece of Bubble Yum and three chances to blow the biggest bublle in the first round with the two top competitors facing off in a final round. Blondin won, earning a prize of a candy sushi kit and a pack of gum.

A little off the top

Joel Luis and Danny Sanchez of Olsen Roofing remove shingles on a large barn last week in Orford. Built in the 1800s, the barn is getting a new roof to help preserve the building.

Winding up a project

GalileaAtencio, 9, and her brother Kingston Atencio, 12, wind twine around what will be roosting bars in the chicken coop they are helping to put together with their father on Tuesday in White River Junction. The family recently got nine chicks, which are living in Galilea’s bedroom under a heat lamp. This is the first time they have raised chickens, and the family is excited to be getting their own eggs.

Capping a class trip

A group of Jacques Rousseau Secondary School friends returning to Longueuil, Quebec, after a class trip to Boston stop for a meal in West Lebanon on Friday. They have made a tradition of wearing matching hats on each year’s trip.

Spring into action

Rose Grenier hands pansies to her husband, Charles Grenier, of Lebanon, on Saturday in Norwich. The couple was at Honey Field Farm for its greenhouse opening. The farm welcomes people to its greenhouses on weekends in April. The couple took a drive with their beagles, wanting to get out of the house, saying they wished it felt more like spring.

Spring cleanup

Carol Sears, of Randolph, cleans brush and weeds out of garden at the Bethel Athletic Fields on Friday. Sears, who cares for the gardens at the nearby Bethel Elementary where she is a pre-kindergarten para-educator, was helping the maintenance staff prepare the garden for spring on the school’s in-service day.

River rescue practice

Hartford firefighter Will Heighes, right, lets out slack on a rope tethered to a rescue raft carrying Hanover firefighter Helder Ferreira, left, and Hartford firefighter Matt McCabe during a water rescue training scenario in the Mascoma River in Lebanon on Wednesday. Members of the Lebanon, Hanover and Hartford fire departments participated in the training.

Burning passion

Martin Pastor splits wood before bringing it into his home in Hanover on Thursday. Pastor burns about six cords of wood per winter, using his fireplace and wood stove. Pastor often cooks over the fireplace, saying, “Since I was a Boy Scout, it is something I like to do.” He enjoys cooking venison after having good luck during hunting season.

Time for a change

On her routine walk in the woods near her Cornish home, Luella Demars counts her laps around a ring of pines with sticks on last week. After finishing her house work most mornings, Demars likes to get out of the house for a change of scene

Cat walk

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Jill Horne, of White River Junction, took a walk with her cat, Juniper, 2, through the village on Wednesday.

Blowing the blaze

Will Spain, of South Royalton, uses a leaf blower to encourage a burn pile he and his employer Michael Wood, of West Hartford, are burning on Wednesday. Wood is in his excavator for the permitted job, cleaning up a section of his land along the White River in West Hartford. Wood uses the land in the summer for swimming and family reunions.