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- From left, honor guard members Nicholas Chapman, Peter Collette, Jonathan Stevens and Lloyd Record fire a salute at the Little Androscoggin River bridge in West Paris during Memorial Day services Monday.
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- Sawyer Coffin looks up at Lloyd Record, a member of the honor guard in the West Paris Memorial Day parade Monday. Sawyer stands next to his father, Shawn Coffin, commander of the Ring-McKeen Post 151 of the American Legion of West Paris.
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- Keaton Spiller portrays Benjamin Franklin during a presentation by the West Paris Explorers Drama Club at Memorial Day services in West Paris on Monday. Standing next to him is Bradley Richards, portraying Leif Erickson. The club is an after-school program led by Eileen Storck and meets at Agnes Gray School.
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- Maureen Ilsley watches the West Paris Memorial Day parade Monday while holding her grandson, Rob, and a large photo of her son, Kyle, (not the father of the child), who is being deployed to the Middle East on June 12. Tucked into the corner of the frame is a photo of Maureen’s stepfather, Ken Probert, a naval aviator in World War II, who was laid to rest May 16.
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- Members of the West Paris Explorers Drama Club, dressed in a variety of patriotic costumes, sing at the West Paris Memorial Day ceremonies Monday. Led by Eileen Strock, they include Emma Chapman, Makaila Brown, Madison Brown, Hunter Brown, George Foster, Keaton Spiller, Alexis Richards, Justin Richards, Bradley Richards, Kimberly Paul, Amelia Bisson, Sophie Green, Charlotte Moore and Destiny Robinson.
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- Emma Chapman, 5, wears an American bald eagle costume in the West Paris Memorial Day service on Monday. She and 13 other members of the West Paris Explorers Drama Club, an after-school program, were dressed as characters from the nation’s history. Their costumes were made by leader Eileen Storck.
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