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Smelt fisherman enjoy the ice as the sun sets Wednesday at D’s Camps on the frozen Cathance River in Bowdoinham. Temperatures dipped into the high teens. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)
Awards in Augusta, snow, ice fishing, high school sports focus of this week in photos
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Central Maine photographers share their favorite shots from Jan. 23-29, 2026.
Cony’s Jaylynn Carver, left, and Erskine Academy’s Kinsey Ulmer battle for a rebound at Erskine Academy in China on Jan. 23. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)Maranacook’s bench reacts Jan. 23 after Grady Hreben’s 3-pointer gives the Black Bears the lead in the fourth quarter of their 63-60 win over Mount View in Readfield. (Anna Chadwick/Staff Photographer)Leslie Stevens laughs with Devryn Valley, both of West Gardiner, while attending the 2026 Kenney Awards on Jan. 23 at the Augusta Civic Center in Augusta. (Anna Chadwick/Staff Photographer)Edward Little’s Evan Madigan drops Oceanside’s Jesse Knowlton in the 144-pound final Jan. 24 at the KVAC championships in Augusta. Madigan won by technical fall, 18-3. (Anna Chadwick/Staff Photographer)Billow, a 9-month-old golden retriever, runs through the fresh snow Monday in her backyard in Gardiner. (Anna Chadwick/Staff Photographer)Snow is cleared near train engines Tuesday at the CSX Waterville yard. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)Al Grenier, 95, snaps a backhand over the net Tuesday as he and teammate Gary Zane, 71, take on Duane Wheeler, 75, and Fred Knapik, 79, in a tennis match at Champions Fitness Club in Waterville. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)Smelt fisherman enjoy the ice as the sun sets Wednesday at D’s Camps on the frozen Cathance River in Bowdoinham. Temps dipped into the high teens. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)Deer make their way to a feeding trough Wednesday at Brownville’s Food Pantry For Deer in Brownville. A camera, center on stake, records the routine feedings shared on YouTube. (Joe Phelan/Staff Photographer)
Rich is a career photojournalist and writer who got his start in newspapers in 1987 at the Fort Morgan Times in Colorado. His appreciation for photography and stories began as a kid while watching slide...
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Anna is a 2023 graduate of Thomas College in Waterville where she received her Master’s in Business Administration and her undergraduate degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus in marketing...
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Joe Phelan is an award winning journalist who makes photos and videos around the capital area for the the Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel and the other Masthead Maine publications. Joe’s first journalism...
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