DOG STORY WITH A HAPPY ENDING.  Wiscasset Town Planner and resident, Jeff Hinderliter stops in at the Wiscasset Newspaper office to show off his new puppy. Hinderliter brought “Bronx” home for the first time last week, but before he got him into his house, the puppy ran off. He was gone for two very cold days and nights. Hinderliter searched the woods around his house to no avail. Early in the morning on the third day, about 3 a.m. he heard a squeaking sound. He went downstairs and opened his front door, and there was Bronx. There were reports he had been seen around the Montsweag Roadhouse, about four miles away. Hinderliter got Bronx from a breeder in Woolwich, and theorizes the pup may have been trying to make his way back to Woolwich.

ALNA POSTMASTER John Hauck arrives on Monday, a holiday in honor of Martin Luther King, to shovel out the walkway so all will be ready for the opening of the post office on Tuesday.     Staff Photo/Paula Gibbs

REMNANTS OF SUNDAY’S all day storm are removed from the roof on a house on Route 218 in Wiscasset Monday morning.

A VIEW THROUGH a telephoto lens of Federal Street in Wiscasset makes the hills on one of the town’s earliest roads look much steeper than they really are, as residents shovel out after Sunday’s snowstorm.   Staff Photo/Paula Gibbs    

SUNDAY’S SNOW STORM, followed by bright sunshine on Monday morning, made for some picture-perfect post card views in the tiny little village of Head Tide in Alna.     Staff Photo/Paula Gibbs

A FRIGID VIEW OF THE SHEEPSCOT RIVER From behind Red's Eats. The mercury dipped to -17 degrees in Wiscasset on Friday.                 Staff Photo/Kathy Onorato