Lights glow behind a Christmas ornament Tuesday on the Jack Skehan & Associates tree at the Johnson Hall Opera House at 280 Water St. in Gardiner. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Hayley Sevigny, center looks a decorations with daughter Lila Sevigny, bottom left, and Griffin Sevigny, top right, during River of Trees event Friday November 29, 2024 at the Augusta Teen Center of the Boys and Girls Club on Water Street in downtown Augusta. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Nash Callahan shovels snow Friday in front of a mural in process by artist C.P. Sketch. The mural is on the side of Callahan’s store, Capital City Cycles, at the corner of Bridge and Water streets in downtown Augusta. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Kat Lemont pours hot water into an Americano during her coffee popup event on Small Business Saturday inside The Blanchard Gallery in Hallowell. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

Lauren Bartlett carries a Christmas tree Monday that she has just cut in her backyard in Winthrop. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel

Deirdre Berglund, a member of Gardiner Rotary Club, tests the light settings for their tree in preparation for the Festival of Trees event Monday at Johnson Hall Opera House in Gardiner. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel

Sarah Hubert speaks to the Maine School Administrative District 11 school board during public comment at a meeting regarding the school based health center Thursday December 5, 2024 in Gardiner. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel

Annie Dobos laughs Tuesday as her fiancé, Winston Fate, connects cords to light decorations on the porch they decorated at their house in Fairfield. Dobos says they have seven lighted Christmas trees on three floors at their 1902 home, including in bedrooms and the den, bathroom, kitchen and family room. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Wreath salesman Travis Morgan is kissed by his Pomeranian dog named Bear as they stayed warm in their truck while selling Christmas wreaths Wednesday at a stand set in the parking lot of the Notre Dame de Loudres Parish Center along Water Street in Skowhegan. Morgan said he was selling 12-inch and 18-inch wreaths for $25 and $35. Morgan added that he and his girlfriend Wendy Dawe hand make the wreaths from clippings they get from Quinn’s Tree Farm in Cornville. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Patrice MacArthur and her dog Bode, a Samoyed, pass a Nativity scene displayed by the gazebo at Veteran’s Memorial Park in Fairfield. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

Emersyn Jacques, 3, of Benton visits with Santa Claus on Sunday in his Kringleville cabin in Castonguay Square in downtown Waterville. Santa will be available from 1-4 p.m. Dec. 7, 8, 14, 15, 21 and 22. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel