Mother Nature’s canvas or Old Man Winter’s dirty work? You decide. STEVE EDWARDS/Boothbay Register Wiscasset’s town cannon sits on the municipal building lawn. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper The moon appears over the horizon as seen from the St. Andrews Urgent Care Center. Courtesy of Connie Faulkingham Wiscasset Elementary School's fifth and sixth grade January Students of the Month, from left, Linnea Andersson, Alexis Leeman, Lilly Stump and Izzy Simmons. Courtesy of Cindy Collamore The Boothbay Region High School girls varsity basketball team won its Class C South quarterfinal tournament game against Mt. Abram, 60-21, on Monday, Feb. 20 at the Augusta Civic Center. The team will now face the Monmouth Mustangs on Thursday, Feb. 23 at 2:30 p.m. in a semifinal match-up. BRHS and Monmouth split their regular season contests. Pictured from left are, front row: Chloe Arsenault, Sydney Mercier, Tori Morin, Kate Friant, Hannah Gentry, Elisabeth Wright; back row: assistant coach Nathan House, head coach Tanner Grover, Sydney Meader, Alexis Welch, Nicole Clarke, Faith Blethen, Page Brown, Angie Perkins, Jo Shaw, assistant coach Brian Blethen, and assistant coach Matt Brewer. Courtesy of Heather Lorrain/BRHS Tuesday afternoon found the Wiscasset Public Works Department hard at work on Lincoln Street near the Scout Hall removing snow. PHIL DI VECE/Wiscasset Newspaper We don’t know whether this East Boothbay homeowner is trying to put a positive outlook on a pile of snow for themselves or passers-by, but this smiling wooden snowman caught the eye of a Turner man visiting the region. Courtesy of Robert L. Denson Lynn Plumb and her husband of Nobleboro were recently exploring a cave in the Bahamas and found old charcoal markings made in the 1890s by Boothbay residents W.C. Blake and F.W. Tibbetts. The Hatchet’s Cave is on the island of Eleuthera and is about a mile underground with three levels reaching down to the water table. Courtesy photo