Revelers packed several events at the annual New Year Gorham celebration that rang in 2015 with fun, food and festivities.

Organizers scrambled to provide additional admission passes for events after the unique blinking lanyards sold out. Event organizer Virginia Wilder Cross said the lanyards, which cost $5, were gone before noon on New Year’s Eve.

Cross said the spaghetti supper at the First Parish Church was “packed” and the “ice skating was packed” at the University of Southern Maine that opened its ice arena to the public.

The Wildlife Encounters show at Shaw Gym was again popular with children and adults. A wallaby, a member of the kangaroo family, proved elusive hopping around the gym. Krista Butts of Wildlife Encounters in Rochester, N.H., even exhibited a 7 year-old American alligator weighing about 60 pounds.

The weather was milder than in the celebration’s previous editions, encouraging attendance at events. But, Mother Nature disappointed with no snow for sledding and snow sculptures.

Matt Paul of Gorham holds his two-year old son, Jude Paul, who is reaching out to touch a black and white tegu named Monster, a member of the lizard family, displayed by Sarah Cantwell of Wildlife Encounters during the New Year Gorham celebration in Shaw Gym on Dec. 31.The New Year Gorham celebration even featured an American alligator. Krista Butts of Wildlife Encounters in New Hampshire displays a 7-year-old alligator named Cajun that intigued a crowd of parents and children in Shaw Gym.A small kangaroo bounds around Shaw Gym on New Year’s Eve.