SNAPSHOT: Summer sailing

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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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.
Published
June 20, 2013

SNAPSHOT: Good fun, good music

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.
Published
June 19, 2013

Discussing veto, shutdown

This short news conference video shows Senate Pres. Justin Alfond, right, and House Speaker Mark Eves talking about the possibility of a budget veto and government shutdown.
Published
June 19, 2013

The end is near

Assistant House Republican leader Rep. Alexander Willette, R-Mapleton, left, and Republican Leader Kenneth Fredette, R-Newport, confer as the House votes during a session on Wednesday in the State House in Augusta.