Kailee Lackie, 7, of Wiscasset holds a couple of the 4,000 eggs placed outside the Wiscasset Community Center the night of October 25, for the Wiscasset Parks & Recreation Department’s first-ever Halloween Raven Egg Hunt. Lackie’s father Danny Lackie looks ahead. A total of 180 children, along with their families, took part in the hunt by flashlight, which followed a magic show in the center’s gym. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper

Braden Peaslee, 8, of Westport Island, holds up an egg he found on the Halloween egg hunt October 25 at the Wiscasset Community Center. Peaslee was there with his siblings and mom Heather Peaslee. Wiscasset’s Halloween fun culminates on Thursday, Oct. 31, with the annual Ghosts and Goblins Parade. Line up at 4 p.m. at Wiscasset Middle School for the 4:30 p.m. start. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper

“Conjuring Carroll” Chapman, left, gets some help from volunteer Owen St. Pierre, 6, of Wiscasset, son of Larry and Valerie St. Pierre, during a magic show that preceded the Wiscasset Parks & Recreation Department’s Halloween Raven Egg Hunt on October 25. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper