PORTLAND — The booing started as Jake Rutt skated slowly to the open door of the penalty box. The whistle for unsportsmanlike conduct with 40 seconds left in the hockey game was still in his ears.

Vinny Paz didn’t sound upset at the news that former boxing champ Hector “Macho Man” Camacho had been shot in the face and was dying. The man who brought heat to everything he said and did wasn’t being cold.

WISCASSET — Richard and Vanessa Jordan left their home in Kingfield and came early, maybe 90 minutes before the foreclosure auction that would decide the fate of Wiscasset Raceway. They walked through knee-high grass. They noticed the sagging and sun-bleached red, white and blue wooden planks in the empty bleachers.

The wig, with its eye-opening Kelly green curls, was mailed to the principal’s office at Bonny Eagle High six months ago. Beth Schultz smiled when she saw what was in the box. She also found a note.