Five-year-old Isabelle Barton holds a candle in front of the Unitarian Church on her way to the annual tree lighting festivities on the Common.

Katie Erdos, Bailey Bourgeois, and Brigitte Lewis practice an angel dance for the ecumenical Christmas pageant.

Sarah Duckett, one of the three kings, proceeds down the aisle as Hannah Keaney waits her turn during a dress rehearsal for the pageant.

Choir members sing “Now Light 1,000 Christmas Lights.” Front row (left to right): Kelly O’Shea, Heather Flokos, Jenny Specht, Jillian Nelson, Lexi Dutkewych, Jennifer Symula, Ryan Kennedy, Kara Kennedy. Back row: Caroline Turnbull, Kaley Pappas, Caroline Hart, Henley Siegrist, Alice Kennedy, and Erin Molinaro.

Sixth-grader Alyssa Asquith plays “O Come Little Children” during a dress rehearsal.

This year’s Baby Jesus, Lucy Maiore, awaits her acting debut on the lap of her mother, Joyce Maiore.

Hannah Wharton, Sofia Catalina, Colby Newsham, Kayla Nickerson, and Stacey Nelson sing “Now Light 1,000 Christmas Lights."

Jamie Aciukewicz and Pilar Vellante watch attentively as they pose as manger animals.