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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
    July 26, 2013

    SNAPSHOT: Gardiner Farmers’ Market

    Michele Roy, left, and Will West, performing as Twisted Strings, play under a tent at the Gardiner Common on Wednesday, at the Gardiner Farmers’ Market.

  • Published
    July 21, 2013

    SNAPSHOT: Reservoir dog

    Selena Chase swims with her dog, Sophie, on Thursday in the Hallowell reservoir. It has been a popular place for people and pets to keep cool with the recent run of hot weather.

  • Published
    July 21, 2013

    SNAPSHOT: Swing into place

    A construction worker reaches for a beam being swung into place by a crane on Thursday at the site of the new Kennebec County Superior Court House being built in Augusta.

  • Published
    July 6, 2013

    SNAPSHOT: Summer sailing

    A sailboat in the Kennebec River goes past the Gardiner landing on Saturday, near where the Cobbossee Stream joins the river. There was a light breeze on the hot sunny afternoon.

  • Published
    June 29, 2013

    SNAPSHOT: R.B. Hall Day Music Festival

    Dennis Harrington plays a cornet that belonged to R.B. Hall during the 33rd R.B. Hall Day Music Festival on Saturday at Old Fort Western in Augusta.

  • Published
    June 29, 2013

    SNAPSHOT VIDEO: Jazzy send-off

    Mel Tukey’s Jazz Society Orchestra leads the funeral party out of Forest Grove cemetery, following services for Charles Andrews on Saturday in Augusta.

  • Published
    June 28, 2013

    SNAPSHOT: Star-spangled showers

    An umbrella-wielding pedestrian walks past bunting-draped window and pillars on Friday in front of the Olde Federal Building in Augusta.

  • Published
    June 27, 2013

    VIDEO, PHOTOS: MaineGeneral installs sign at Alfond Center for Health

    Workers clean the walls around the recently mounted sign letters on top of the Alfond Center for Health regional hospital, to be operated by MaineGeneral Health, on Wednesday in Augusta.

  • Published
    June 25, 2013

    SNAPSHOT: Slide splash

    Katie Holmes hits the water in Three-Cornered Pond, coming off a slide on Tuesday in Augusta’s Bicentennial Nature Park.

  • Published
    June 20, 2013

    STILL LIFE: Sounds of summer

    Gerald Brann plays and sings with the Yellow Brick Road, an Elton John tribute band, during this year’s first Waterfront Wednesday concert on Wednesday in Augusta’s Waterfront Park. It was the first of an annual series of shows every Wednesday from 6 p.m. to sunset through August 14. The series is sponsored by radio stations 92Moose and B98.5, Augusta city recreation department and Walgreen’s.