GINGERBREAD POPULATION Observer photos/Stuart Hedstrom      SeDoMoCha Elementary students brought home a gingerbread figure they then disguised with their parents as part of a unit involving gingerbread — such as reading stories about gingerbread men and playing instruments during music lessons involving gingerbread men tales.

    BANGOR — Six players, who are graduates of either Foxcroft Academy or Dexter Regional High School, were members of the 2013 Husson University football team.

    Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft announces the following births:    ALVARADO — A son, Sebastian Leandro Alvarado, born to Natasha Conrad of Dexter and Javier Alvarado of Madison Heights, Va.

GOOD JUMPER Observer photo/Mike Lange  Abbie Melvin (10) of Dexter hits a jumper for two of her 13 points in Saturday’s game against PCHS.

    DEXTER — Jack Does That, the locally based hour-exchange organization, will be the featured topic at the monthly Dexter Dover Area Towns in Transition (DDATT) meeting on Friday, Jan 10 (Jan.

SCOUT-MADE WREATHS Photo courtesy of Nancy McCloskey/Cub Scout Pack 61      The Bear’s Den from Sangerville’s Cub Scout Pack 61 proudly show off the Christmas wreaths they made at their recent den meeting.

FIND THE SHOP LOCAL TREE CONTEST WINNER Observer photo/Stuart Hedstrom     Marilyn Blais, center, of Dover-Foxcroft was the winner in the Piscataquis Observer’s annual Find the Shop Local Tree Contest.

UP AND GOOD Observer photo/Mike Lange     (Left) Dexter center Megan Peach (32) goes in for a lay-up in Saturday’s 54-20 Tiger victory at Guiski Gymnasium.

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — Chief Justice Leigh I.

PEN    6    1    8     8     — 23DEX    10    9    11  24  — 54     Dexter: Peach 15, A.