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Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, front center, reaches out to U.S. Navy veteran Michael Martin, right, as he receives the Connecticut Veterans Wartime Service Medal during the first Military Appreciation Day at Ocean Beach Park in New London on Saturday, Aug. 18, 2018. From left, U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, and Emily Hein, representing the Connecticut Department of Veterans' Affairs, look on. (Tim Martin/The Day)

Military Appreciation Day

Friends Kathryn Asman, 6, left, of Lyme, Cathy Catucci and her daughter, Olivia, 2, center, of Old Lyme and Teddy Schaaf, 4, right, of Old Lyme ride the Fun Slide at the Hamburg Fair Friday, Aug. 17, 2018. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Opening night of the Hamburg Fair

Daniel Torrez of Springfield, Mass., reels in a porgy while fishing Friday, Aug. 17, 2018, along the shoreline at Fort Trumbull State Park in New London. Torrez was fishing with his brother Luis Torrez, not pictured, also a resident of Springfield. (Tim Martin/The Day)

On the rocks

Volunteer Alex Jakubczak, of East Lyme High School, helps James O'Toole, 20, get started peddling during the

"I Can Bike" camp

Sonia Pieczara, left, head horticulturist at Greenwood Gardens in Short Hills, N.J., and Anne Brennan, right, gardens manager of the Temple University Ambler Arboretum in Ambler, Pa., sit in the shade of a copper beech tree on their lunch break while attending the Northeast Sentinel Plant Network Workshop at Connecticut College in New London Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Lunch under a shade tree

Crews from Mohawk work underneath Interstate 95 on the south bound span of the Gold Star bridge on Thursday afternoon, August 16, 2018. The two are working almost perfectly on the New London/Groton town line. (Tim Martin/The Day)

Bridge work

Tour of the Hidden Water Sculpture Trail

Callie Dupuis, 9, left, watches her friends Reese Campbell, 10, center, and Hailley Campbell, 12, do walkovers while they and Callie's sister, Macie Dupuis, 7, not show, all of Norwich practice their gymnastics while spending time at Eastern Point Beach in Groton Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. Pam Campbell, mother of Reese and Hailley, said she took the girls to Eastern Point because it has been rainy and since it was a nice day wanted to get out in the sun. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Gymnastics practice

Emily Smith, 9, center, of Old Saybrook draws in her sketch book while her friend, Isabella Newton Lobo, 9, left, of Old Saybrook, chats with camp counselor Hannah Smith, right, of East Lyme during a break while attending Art Colony Camp at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018. The session this week for 4-6th graders is the last session of the summer. The week long camp with alternating sessions for grades 1-3 and grades 4-6 started July 9. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Art Colony Camp

Kids spend time on the dock chatting while watching friends playing in the water at Rogers Lake in Old Lyme Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Summer day at Rogers Lake

Lobsang Sangye, of Montville, stands under an umbrella while heating a kettle for tea on a grill as it rains on Monday, August 13, 2018 at Harkness Memorial State Park. Sangye, who works at Mohegan Sun and had the day off, was prepared for a rainy picnic with friends as they ate in a tent and took turns grilling in the rain.

Tea party in the rain

An egret perches atop a tree in wetlands off River Rd. on the Groton side of Mystic Monday, August 12, 2018. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

A tree to perch in

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