Police continue to investigate Patrik Ian Arsenault, 27, of Norridgewock, a Wayne and Farmington special education teacher charged with molesting two Clinton boys this summer.

Augusta Police Officer Eric Dos Santos holds the service star that Deputy Chief Jared Mills, left, gave him after removing it from the department’s sign Monday at the station in Augusta.

Dos Santos, who has been with the department since 2006, is a captain with the Maine National Guard and the commander of the 488th Military Police Company, which began a year-long deployment to Afghanistan in June 2012.

Augusta police hung the blue star in December as a public notice that one of its officers was serving in combat. Monday was Dos Santos’ first day back at work.

Augusta Police Deputy Chief Jared Mills said Dos Santos will go through a three-month re-acclimation process, beginning with work in an administrative role.

“We are so happy to have officer Dos Santos back home with our department,” Mills said. “We could not be more proud of his service to our country during his deployment, and we have always been in full support of the work he does with the Guard.”

Brandon M. Rimes, 26, of Fairfield, was ordered to spend eight months behind bars, and to pay for a couple’s home security system, for burglarizing an Oakland home on Dec. 6.

Expert “lumberjills” Michelle Morse and Alissa Harper were the featured competitors at Windsor Fair’s Woodsmen’s Field Day on Monday.