Boothbay region youth baseball program opening day May 11. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register A scene from the Y Arts' Spring Recital. KEVIN BURNHAM/Boothbay Register Seahawks senior Margret "Meg" Sledge gets a hug from her father, Matt Sledge, during Senior Night. KEVIN BURNHAM/Boothbay Register A reader has protection on the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library lawn. KEVIN BURNHAM/Boothbay Register One of the participants in the Penguin Plunge can't leave the water fast enough. KEVIN BURNHAM/Boothbay Register Pinocchio (Agatha Harris) and Geppetto (Andrew Luke) talk about their life ahead during the Y Arts production at the Opera House. KEVIN BURNHAM/Boothbay Register A scene from Y Arts' production of "Pinocchio." KEVIN BURNHAM/Boothbay Register A scene from the Y Arts production of "Godspell." KEVIN BURNHAM/Boothbay Register Danny Miller at the Leprechaun Leap on Southport. KEVIN BURNHAM/Boothbay Register Seahawk senior Dominick Dow gets a kiss from his mother, Emily Dow, during Senior Night. KEVIN BURNHAM/Boothbay Register A young girl feeds some ducks from a footbridge float. KEVIN BURNHAM/Boothbay Register A young dancer at the Y Arts' Spring Recital. KEVIN BURNHAM/Boothbay Register The BRHS Class of 2024 tosses their caps after the graduation ceremony. KEVIN BURNHAM/Boothbay Register Staff members at the Family Care Center celebrate Valentine's Day. KEVIN BURNHAM/Boothbay Register Replacing equipment on a utility pole at Boothbay Region High School. KEVIN BURNHAM/Boothbay Register Gardens Aglow 2024 scene. STEVE EDWARDS/Boothbay Register Geese and babies. STEVE EDWARDS/Boothbay Register Filling the plates at the Boothbay Harbor First Department barbecue. STEVE EDWARDS/Boothbay Register Scene from the pre-prom gathering at Barrett's Park. STEVE EDWARDS/Boothbay Register Dick Morrison crosses the flooded footbridge during a January storm. STEVE EDWARDS/Boothbay Register "American Idol" contestant Julia Gagnon of Cumberland performs at a fundraiser at Brady's restaurant. STEVE EDWARDS/Boothbay Register Boats gather in the outer harbor during Windjammer Days. STEVE EDWARDS/Boothbay Register Boothbay Region High School students posed for photos in Barrett's Park during the traditional pre-prom gathering. STEVE EDWARDS/Boothbay Register The tide came into local parking lots during the January storms. STEVE EDWARDS/Boothbay Register Waiting for Santa's arrival at the Boothbay Railway Village Museum. ISABELLE CURTIS/Boothbay Register A reading session at the North Pole Express celebration. ISABELLE CURTIS/Boothbay Register Santa greets passengers on the train during the North Pole Express. ISABELLE CURTIS/Boothbay Register Pumpkin picking at the Boothbay Railway Village Museum. ISABELLE CURTIS/Boothbay Register The Lighted Fire Truck parade. ISABELLE CURTIS/Boothbay Register Waiting for the Lighted Fire Truck Parade to start. ISABELLE CURTIS/Boothbay Register Building the Buoy Tree on Pier One. ISABELLE CURTIS/Boothbay Register Catch me if you can. Two dogs have some fun on Hendricks Head Beach, Southport. KEVIN BURNHAM/Boothbay Register The eagle has landed. KEVIN BURNHAM/Boothbay Register Bloody Belle “captures” a Coast Guard vessel June 25 during the 2024 Windjammer Days. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register Santa and his entourage arriving by boat to Whale Park Dec. 7. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register BRHS baseball action. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register Serving up oysters at the 2024 Pemaquid Oyster Festival. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register A team from away (Massachusetts) competing in the 2024 Windjammer Days Tug Across the Harbor. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register Taking a breather after the 2024 Halloween march in downtown Boothbay Harbor. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register Oyster shucking at the Pemaquid Oyster Festival. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register Ronan Sleith, 4, tries an oyster at the Pemaquid Oyster Festival. Soon after he gave it to his mother. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register Pirates prepare for a fight during the Windjammer Days Battle for Boothbay Harbor. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register BRES students participate in sailing-themed activities during an open house with the crew of the schooner Bowdoin May 28. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register Seahawk Finn Harkins pitches against Hall-Dale May 20. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register Cod fish races. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register The server shuffle during Windjammer Days. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register BRHS Grand March. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register Cod races during WJD. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register Getting help at the Grand March. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register Cleaning up a fish for sale at the Boothbay Harbor Tuna Challenge. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register Ultimate Frisbee. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register Grand March. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register BRHS baseball action. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register Seahawk Sam Markowitz reaches for a catch as teammate Casey Phelps moves out of the way at a game against Mt. View May 10. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register Ultimate Frisbee. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register Cod fish races. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register Boothbay region youth baseball program opening day May 11. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register Angus King speaks to a resident during a celebration for the Boothbay Railway Village. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register BRHS graduation celebration. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register The present, past and future generations of Edgecomb cut the ceremonial cake at Edgecomb’s 400th birthday party March 17. From left, Willis Clifford, Mike Smith, and Reid Carver. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register Ed Crocker, in red, holds wife Candie at the scene of the fire that heavily damaged their home. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register The BRVM train. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register BRHS senior limbo at BRES. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register Summertime sliding. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register Lights on Boothbay Common. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register Meeting with Santa on the Boothbay Common. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register High 5s for seniors at BRES. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register Dancing fairies. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register Boy meets the Grinch on the Boothbay Common. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register Happy winners at Claw Down. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register First place winners at Claw Down. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register A leisurely ride on the water. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register In Stover Auditorium during marching practice May 31, Debra Pooler shows seniors where to be. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Philo, candidate for king of Wiscasset, offers a paw Aug. 30 to Laurie Winslow, a friend of his owner Cynthia Pappas. Signs in town declared local pets’ candidacies for offices real and not real. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Wiscasset’s Corbin and Lucy Flores-Lichtinger and son Gideon, 7, take part in a relay at Wormfest in Wiscasset June 8. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Sandra Winters of American Legion Post 54’s Auxiliary Unit places a wreath at the veterans wall in Wiscasset during Veterans Day ceremonies Nov. 11. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Sophia Mansfield shows her feelings after leaving a cold Linekin Bay during the Penguin Plunge on Jan. 1. KEVIN BURNHAM/Boothbay Register Expressing love during the Early Bird Sale in front of the Buoy Tree. STEVE EDWARDS/Boothbay Register BRHS baseball action. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register Moriah Smith scores an overtime goal for the Boothbay Region High School field hockey team. KEVIN BURNHAM/Boothbay Register Engineer John Orne works on the train at the Boothbay Railway Village Museum. ISABELLE CURTIS/Boothbay Register Santa and Mrs. Claus and the Grinch on the Boothbay Common. LISA KRISTOFF/Boothbay Register Bay Lady returns to port. KEVIN BURNHAM/Boothbay Register 2025 Maine Teacher of the Year Becky Hallowell, who teaches fourth grade at Wiscasset Elementary School, is flanked by her uncles Michael “Jim” Bilinsky, left, and Daniel Fortin Oct. 10 at a reception after Hallowell learned she’d won the statewide honor. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper In Stover Auditorium May 31, Wiscasset Middle High School seniors see how far apart they should be from the classmate beside them when they march into graduation June 6. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper A view of Bristol Marine, Boothbay Harbor, from the water. STEVE EDWARDS/Boothbay Register Volunteers and runners spread Thanksgiving cheer before the start of the 2024 Boothbay Region Turkey Trot. FRITZ FREUDENBERGER/Boothbay Register Emmalyn Tarrance, 13, carries brother Henry Tarrance, 8, in the Wormfest relay June 8 in Wiscasset. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Indigo Sanders-Stoyle, 7, of Wiscasset watches artist Emily Bell-Hoerth dip and dye in indigo at Wiscasset’s Earth Day celebration at Wiscasset Community Center April 27. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Harpswell’s Ron Gagne, left, on his 2023, “whiskey neat”-colored Harley Davidson, and wife Sue Gagne, on a Canada-made Can Am three-wheel motorcycle, back into parking spots on the Wiscasset waterfront Sept. 7. They planned to meet family and spend time in the area, including the Boothbay Region. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Wiscasset Elementary School fourth grade teacher and Lincoln County Teacher of the Year Becky Hallowell, who a month later would be named Maine Teacher of the Year, greets incoming fifth grader Patience Davis Tuesday morning, Sept. 3, the start of the new school year. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Eleanor Lynch helps cousin Owen O’Toole off with the waders in a relay at Wormfest in Wiscasset June 8. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Wiscasset’s Linda Zollers pulls weeds at a Middle Street property the morning of Aug. 21. She said this work she does at a couple places is one of her passions, the other being her longtime volunteering in the archives at Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway Museum in Alna. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper A lobsterman cleans the boat on return to the Wiscasset shore Sept. 7. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Wiscasset’s Sam Renzi, 8, returns to his family after winning a stuffed bunny at the Easter egg hunt March 30 at the Wiscasset Middle High School track. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Enjoying Wiscasset’s Easter egg hunt March 30, in rabbit ears and the sun and gusty winds the event usually gets. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper From left, American Legion Post 54’s Cliff Hendricks and Mike Barnes, Team Willow’s Beth Bluteau, Cooper-DiPerri Scholarship Fund Committee member Sheila Sawyer and Post 54 Cmdr. William Cossette Jr. gather at the Legion hall on Route One, Wiscasset March 22 to talk about the post’s recent donations to both causes. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper The wind keeps a small American flag and a big one moving Sept. 7 on the Wiscasset waterfront. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper