The 2022 Christmas season kicked off to a rousing start with Santa making an appearance, parades, a Jingle Jog and family and friends enjoying time outside in above-average November temperatures. The Debraggio family of Clinton and some members of the Waterville High School cross country team, with Clinton graduate and Waterville teacher Andrew Ford (who blazed to a first-place finish in the Jingle Jog) burned some of those Thanksgiving calories in Clinton’s run Saturday, as did about 210 others. Waterville’s Parade of Lights brought out laughs and smiles with creative floats. Photos of events, Pages 6, 7 and 12.