SNAPSHOT: Maine’s first lady ‘reads for the record’

Joe Phelan Kennebec Journal

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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October 4, 2013

SNAPSHOT: Maine’s first lady ‘reads for the record’

First Lady Ann LePage reads “Otis,” by Loren Long, to schoolchildren Thursday at Gilbert Elementary School in Augusta, as part of Jumpstart’s Read for the Record initiative.
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October 3, 2013

SNAPSHOT: Go fetch!

Charlie the Pomeranian keeps his eye on the ball as he swims after a small green tennis ball at the China Village boat launch on Wednesday in China. Donna Walston, of Waterville, said that Charlie loves to swim and play fetch.
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September 29, 2013

SNAPSHOT: Manchester Apple Festival parade

Willie Danforth, from the Franco-American War Veterans Post 31 in Lewiston and dressed as Uncle Sam, leads the 10th annual Manchester Apple Festival parade on Saturday on Route 17 in Manchester.
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September 28, 2013

SNAPSHOT: Petanque pointers

Raymond Fecteau, left, gives Adriana Yeaton, center, some advice on where to throw the metal ball, called a boule, during her pétanque game against Ian Gifford, right, on Friday at Farrington School in Augusta.
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September 27, 2013

SNAPSHOT: Lights of life

Robert Antognoni, left, hooks up wires for LED lights as Robert E. Antognoni waits with a remote control to test them on Thursday at the Maine Emergency Medical Services monument being built in in Augusta.
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September 22, 2013

SNAPSHOT: Ghost in the machine

Matt McLeod, of eWaste Recycling Solutions, is reflected in the screen of an old television while wrapping up a stack of them on Saturday in the parking lot at the Augusta Civic Center.
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September 21, 2013

SNAPSHOT: Taste of Home Cooking School Show

Chef Michael Barna talks to a group of Taste of Home Cooking School Show attendees in the preshow, VIP reception today at the Augusta Civic Center.
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September 14, 2013

SNAPSHOT: Little bridge, big project

Construction workers under and on the Calumet Bridge at Old Fort Western work on natural gas pipe line on a rainy Friday over the Kennebec River in Augusta.
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September 14, 2013

SNAPSHOT: Whitefield Community Day

Whitefield Community Day was held today, and had among its events a miniature pie-eating contest, antiques appraisals and live music.
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September 12, 2013

SNAPSHOT: Close call with mother nature

A crew from Hickey Logging cleans up several fallen trees on Thursday at a camp on the banks of Cobbossee Lake in West Gardiner. Several trees on the property were blown during a thunderstorm on Wednesday night. Owners Jack Boynton and Gail Andrews said that they’d been standing on the porch watching lightning over water when the trees fell right in front, but not on top, of the camp.