A toddler with a tootsie pop and a monkey costume danced in time to Kenny Loggins’ “Footloose” on Federal Street Monday night. A shark used a flipper in a high-five with a winged creature. Freddy Krueger chatted with a clown. And Michaela West of 42 Federal Street was dressed as a witch and ready for the extra trick-or-treating Wiscasset’s first-ever “Nightmare on Federal Street” would bring to her dooryard.

She bought extra candy. “You don’t want to run out. That’s not good.”

Paw Patrol representatives, Santa, an inmate, and Tina from Bob’s Burgers also joined in the party, an expansion on Wiscasset’s long-running Halloween parade. Parks and Recreation, the police, fire and ambulance departments and Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce combined efforts to pull it off. Surrounded by celebrants, Parks and Recreation Director Todd Souza said it was great to see all the families having fun and the chamber taking part.

Tina, aka Kateleen Trask, 14, of Alna, explained Bob Burgers is her favorite show. Her favorite part of Monday’s event was the costume contest. She won an orange cup of goodies in the category for funniest and was happy the judges recognized the character.

The parade lived up to its usual strong turnout including first-timers and participants past. Wiscasset’s Deb MacPhee used to bring her kids, now grown, and was back for the first time in years, as a grandmother to Amelia Gamrat, 8 months. MacPhee said she is starting in again going to community events with the next generation. “It’s all about making the memories.”

Wiscassset Elementary School students Blaze Dube, 10, and brother Erik, 8, wore paper mache jack-o-lanterns over their heads. The boys’ mother, Rachel Henson, said her sons made them from copies of the Wiscasset Newspaper. “We’re recycling.”

The new block party featured the trick-or-treating, the costume contest the chamber ran, and the music, lights and a bubble machine in front of deejay Cory Creamer of Performance Entertainment. When the bubbles came out in intermittent bursts, children reached for, blew at or danced through them. Creamer wore an Afro wig. Halloween is the only time men with no hair can have lots of it, he said.

“I’m a lady police chief,” Emma Pelletier, 9, said. She also said she liked seeing her teacher, WES’ Emily Robinson, in a lobster costume. Pelletier’s mother Lynn praised the event. “It gives you more to do than just the straight trick-or-treat.”

“Oh, my gosh. So cute,” chamber board chairman Monique McRae, under a purple polka dot witch hat, said as a young Heat Miser with raised, fiery orange hair passed nearby.

Wiscasset All-Sports Boosters manned a grill that let off some warmth in the crisp evening air. The day’s winds lowered by sunset. “What a perfect night for this,” Souza said.