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PHOTOS OF THE DAY

Niko and Shareah Bree of Uncasville laugh with family members, not shown, between formal photos after their small wedding ceremony with their families Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, at Eastern Point Beach in Groton. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Couple opts for small wedding service — for now — at Groton beach

Competitors, and their humans, gather in ring two for the next round of judging Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021, during the Pawcatuck River Labrador Retriever Club's 17th annual Labrador Retriever Specialty Shows and All-Breed Obedience & Rally Trials at the North Stonington fairgrounds. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Labrador retrievers headline show in North Stonington

Carmella Cornish, left, spends time coloring Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021, while she and her friend Maya Cooper, both of New London, relax on the pier at Greens Harbor Beach in New London. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Friends find some rest and relaxation in New London

Workers with contractor Blakeslee Arpaia Chapman continue the process of removing the mooring dolphins Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021, from the State Pier complex in New London. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Dolphins being demolished at State Pier in New London

The Mohawk Northeast tugboat Judy M waits for the Thames River Railroad Bridge to lift Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021, before transiting south in the Thames from Mohawk's Groton facility to the construction site at General Dynamics Electric Boat. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Tugboat transits Thames River

Crew members of Coast Guard Station New London play football Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021, on the parade ground at Fort Trumbull State Park in New London. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Coast Guard Station New London crew shares a friendly game of football

Gray Meyer, lead deckhand on the schooner Columbia, climbs the main mast shrouds Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021, as he performs a routine check of the rigging of the vessel, docked at City Pier in New London. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Laying aloft to check the rig

Lucas Monsegur, two, laughs as he rides in a battery operated car controlled by his dad Christian as they are joined by mom Kelly, and brother Gabriel, six months, on a family walk along Pequot Avenue in New London Monday, September 20, 2021. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

Walking the car

Volunteers with the Alzheimer's Association Connecticut chapter, from left, Tom Gardiner, Ann Marie Ware and Jen Kaczmarek, stretch a Walk to End Alzheimer's T-shirt over the John J. Kelley statue Friday, Sept. 17, 2021, in Mystic to kick off the association's End Alzheimer's Season and promote the Eastern CT Walk to End Alzheimer's. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Kelley sculpture dons purple for Alzheimer's awareness

Friends, from left, Ella Rose Wagner, Eleni Xifaras, Melissa Solomindes, Maddie Baldwin and Brooke Cody, all 12 and of Farmington, attempt to share an inner tube Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021, as they play at Rocky Neck State Park in East Lyme. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

Friends share a totally tubular tradition in East Lyme

Bill Dutton, left, of Gales Ferry and Lynn Mansel of Bozrah talk Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, before going scuba diving to take photos of fish and look for artifacts off shore from Stonington Point. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Who's looking for a mermaid in Stonington? These guys

Bibiana King works on repainting her cement lawn ornaments black Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, in front of her Stonington Borough home. The dog on the right has only the primer coat so far. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

A new coat of paint for Stonington dog ornaments

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