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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 job was as a kid delivering his hometown newspaper, The Blade, in the suburbs of Toledo, Ohio. Then he worked as reporter and editor for the school newspapers in high school and college and started taking pictures to go with his stories for a local running magazine. He graduated from Bowling Green State University with a journalism degree. Before getting hired by MaineToday Media he did a photojournalism internship at the The Plain Dealer and worked as an Associated Press stringer in Cleveland.

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  • Published
    December 5, 2013

    SNAPSHOT

    Football honors

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    November 27, 2013

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    Delicious fun

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    November 24, 2013

    Operation Christmas Child

    Volunteers are preparing Christmas gifts that will be shipped around the country and world.

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    November 14, 2013

    SNAPSHOT: Kettle donation

    Gov. Paul LePage donates to the Salvation Army Thursday.

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    November 6, 2013

    SNAPSHOT: “Tanks-giving Food Drive”

    B-98.5 FM radio personality Randy McCoy broadcasts from an Army tent near the tank at Camp Keyes gate on Airport Road on Tuesday in Augusta.

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    November 5, 2013

    SNAPSHOT: Voting day

    Augusta puts its new voting machines to the test.

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    October 17, 2013

    SNAPSHOT: Building justice

    A welder works up on a lift on Tuesday as construction continues on the new Kennebec County Superior Court House being built in Augusta.

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    October 16, 2013

    SNAPSHOT: Fall cleaning

    Daniel Robideau vacuums up leaves on Tuesday around the perimeter of the Gardiner Common in Gardiner. He and another city employee who was driving the truck had earlier used leaf blowers to clean off the Common and make windrows of leaves along the curb. Robideau said that they’d probably have to do it a few more times this season.

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    October 5, 2013

    SNAPSHOT: The Great Commission

    Flagbearers march during the entrance procession for the opening mass of “The Great Commission: One Family in Mission” event today at the Augusta Civic Center.

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    October 5, 2013

    SNAPSHOT: Jug judge

    Martin Willis, James A. Julia Inc.’s director of decorative arts for the greater Boston area, points out a thumbprint in a red ware jug that Jane Paxton, of Hallowell, left, brought in for an appraisal today at the Cohen Center in Hallowell.