From left, Dance Maineia teacher Melanie Pagurko of Whitefield and students Michaela LaCrosse and Sopna Atkinson-Tatro, both of Damariscotta, dance to hip hop music on Wiscasset’s new sidewalk at Wiscasset Art Walk Aug. 26. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper WMHS Principal Charles Lomonte and senior Kasey Mills bump fists at marching practice at Wiscasset Speedway June 9. Mills told Wiscasset Newspaper he was excited and happy for graduation. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Cheryl “Shep” Rust, who owned Wiscasset’s Le Garage 40 years, returns from a pace car ride around Wiscasset Speedway’s track at Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual dinner June 17. Looking out is pace car driver Barry Morris of Livermore Falls. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Leilani the poodle checks out the Wiscasset waterfront Aug. 19 from her home, the 1939, Wiscasset-built schooner When and If, as it arrives in Wiscasset Aug. 19 for the inaugural Schoonerfest. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Marching practice at Wiscasset Speedway June 9 for Wiscasset Middle High School’s Class of 2021. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper This Jan. 19 gathering on Main Street, Wiscasset was part of a nationwide evening of remembrance for those who died in the pandemic. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper American Legion Post 54’s Wally Pitcher watches as great-granddaughter Claire Allen, 15 months, in mother Maggie Lachance’s arms, offers Pitcher’s great-granddaughter Callie Piecick, 5, a taste of candy after Pitcher and fellow Post members raised the American flag at Wiscasset’s waterfront July 4. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Jameson Brooks, 10, pulls a balloon from a bag at his birthday party July 24 as his longtime pen pal Sophie Dear looks on. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum President David Buczkowski discusses how trains will enter the bays of an engine house being built like one that burned in Wiscasset 90 years ago. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper From left, Easton Griffin and Julian Bonnell, both 2, and Caroline Bonnell and Evelyn Griffin, both 4, await Wiscasset’s Fourth of July parade on Hooper Street. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Selectman Allison Hepler looks at Woolwich’s War Memorial at Laurel Hill Cemetery in October. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper Elizabeth Freeman shares a first day back at school hug with daughters Haley Dumais, 10, foreground, and Lily Dumais, 12, in the Wiscasset Elementary School lot Sept. 7. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Wiscasset Fire Chief Rob Bickford at the scene after part of the Wawenock building collapses April 3. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset newspaper Maine Sen. Bill Diamond, D – Windham, foreground, and Rep. Jeff Hanley, R – Pittston, put a poster on a camper at Wiscasset Community Center Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 29, for a stop on Diamond’s “Walk a mile in their shoes tour” promoting child protective services reform and honoring Wiscasset’s Kendall Chick and other slain children. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Maria Jenness makes a find on Route 218 April 24 in the town-wide roadside cleanup she organized in Alna. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Annaliese Hart of Houston, Texas and son Damian, 4, check out scarecrows Oct. 9 at a Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce contest that kicked off Wiscasset’s Scarecrowfest. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Molly Clark, 2, of Glen Ridge, New Jersey and Finley Hartig, 4, of Sparta, New Jersey take in First Congregational Church of Wiscasset’s Summerfest on Wiscasset Common July 24. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Austin Trask takes the baton from Payton Blagdon in the 4x100-meter relay race at Wiscasset Middle High School May 6. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper Firefighters play tug-of-war at Dresden’s Summerfest July 11. ART MAYERS/Wiscasset Newspaper Ray Cornils warms up the organ before an October, First Congregational Church of Wiscasset service. SARAH WHITFIELD/Wiscasset Newspaper Mowing Ancient Cemetery on Federal Street, Wiscasset July 15, Levon “A.J.” Travis Jr. of the public works department said sometimes when he mows there he thinks about what he learned about the cemetery in grade school, including the many lives disease claimed in town. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper From left, Wiscasset Ordinance Review Committee Chair Karl Olson, Wiscasset Art Walk’s Lucia Droby, ORC member Donald Oyster, Lincoln County Regional Planning Commission Executive Director Mary Ellen Barnes and Appearance of the Town Committee and Friends of Wiscasset Village member Terry Heller measure and walk Main Street’s sidewalks March 29 as they contemplate a policy for the sidewalks’ use. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Clear water Feb. 13 on the Wiscasset waterfront shows what lies beneath. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Corben Jones, 6, left, and brother Paxton, 4, use the slide during Wiscasset Elementary School’s outdoor open house Sept. 16. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Ryan Potter graduates from WMHS. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Somebody left this message, seen in January, for hikers to ponder along the shoreline of Cushman Preserve, Wiscasset. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper Standing, from left, inside St. Philip’s Episcopal Church June 14 are Help Yourself Shelf volunteer Kristen Haines with a neighbor’s dog, fellow volunteers Susan Ratigan and Deane Atwood, the guest of honor Ellsworth Stone and volunteers Sharman Ballantine and Joni Leigh. On the floor, from left, are volunteers Tom Junkert and Deborah Morgan, with volunteer Gretchen Burleigh-Johnson’s dog Bo, and Burleigh-Johnson with her dog Pippa. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper American Legion Post 54’s Neil Page speaks with Sandra Shea about the veterans wall after a Memorial Day ceremony in Wiscasset. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper A majestic tree off Lee Street, Wiscasset casts a long shadow Feb. 13. Center right, Castle Tucker. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Army veteran Robert Fairfield, left, and Navy veteran Dusty Jones attend a September cookout at American Legion Post 54 in Wiscasset. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Bird’s eye view of Wiscasset Municipal Airport March 24. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper Westport Island residents cast their ballots in an outdoor, special town meeting in April. SARAH WHITFIELD/Wiscasset Newspaper The Greeleys of Farmingdale, from left, Janet, Isabella, Max and Greg, walk Wiscasset’s Water Street Feb. 7. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper