LOCAL

Dog day afternoon

Telegram & Gazette
Lunenburg resident Maureen LeMarbre's basset hound, Tucker, was one of several dogs — and their owners — cooling off at Powder Mill Pond in Barre on Saturday in an effort to beat the heat.
Gable Castine, 8, of Auburn, tosses a football while playing in the water at Coes Pond Beach in Worcester on a summerlike Saturday.

Folks and folks' best friends hit local beaches on a sultry summerlike Saturday across Worcester County.