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Here are some of our favorite Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel photos from Dec. 5-12, 2025.

Seth, who didn’t give his last name, shovels ice and slush into a drain Tuesday at North Country Car Wash in Winthrop. He said winter is the busiest season there because people want to remove road salt. (Joe Phelan/Staff Photographer)
The lights on a city of Augusta plow truck leave streaks in this 1/2.5 second long-exposure photo taken around 4 p.m. Wednesday in front of the city’s holiday tree in Market Square at the corner of Water and Winthrop streets in downtown Augusta. (Joe Phelan/Staff photographer)
People travel along Capitol Street during a snowy evening Wednesday in Augusta. (Anna Chadwick/Staff Photographer)
Cony’s Parker Morin goes airborne Dec. 5 as he defends Jordan Quinn of Nokomis at Nokomis High School in Newport. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)
Gardiner-area school board chairwoman Becky Fles, left, pounds the gavel Thursday as she tries to maintain order as district Superintendent Kady Gould looks on during the Maine School Administrative District 11 meeting in Gardiner. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)
After clearing the hole with a scoop skimmer, Lorriston Adams prepares to set another ice fishing trap Tuesday on Cochnewagon Lake in Monmouth. (Joe Phelan/Staff Photographer)
McKenna Roy, 5, leads her mom, Brittany Roy, and sister Carly Roy, 9 months, on Dec. 6 as the trio and their family view trees entered in a decorating contest at Redington Memorial Home in Skowhegan. The contest was part of the SKOW-Whoville celebration. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)
Hall-Dale’s Landon Gilbert, top, blocks a shot by Spruce Mountain’s Caden Frazier while Greyson Cary hits the floor Thursday in Farmingdale. (Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)
 

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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...

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...

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...