SNAPSHOT: Sounds delicious

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
May 15, 2013

SNAPSHOT: Sounds delicious

Harpist Deborah Ridlon performs at the Mill Park Farmers Market on Tuesday in Augusta. The market’s summer hours are 2 to 6 p.m., Tuesdays through mid-November. In all, the market will have 16 vendors, according to market manager Emily Vellani. They’ll have seedlings, produce, meat, eggs, honey, syrup, baked goods, ice cream, cheese and other items. The market will accept EBT or SNAP program payments.
Published
May 14, 2013

SNAPSHOT: Get your motors running

Owner Larry Mason drives a new lawn tractor past rows of push mowers in for repair on Tuesday at Mason’s Lawnmower and Power Equipment in Augusta.
Published
May 14, 2013

PHOTOS: Kennebec Area Special Olympics Games

The Kennebec Area Special Olympics Games on Tuesday at Hall-Dale High School in Farmingdale drew 275 athletes competing in running, jumping and throwing events.
Published
May 14, 2013

SNAPSHOT: Hand-me-down

Oak Hill Middle School seventh-grader Eric O’Connor, left, works with Carrie Ricker School third-grader Damian Judd on O’Connor’s MacBook on Tuesday in Litchfield. Next year, the fourth- and fifth-grade students will receive the MacBooks the the seventh- and eighth-graders are currently using.
Published
May 11, 2013

SNAPSHOT: Welcome visitors

Akira Muto, Japanese Consul General for New England, right, and his wife, Misako, laugh and sing along as Japanese language teacher Naoto Kobayashi leads his students in a song Friday at Richmond Middle School. Muto, who is based in Boston, and his delelgation spent the day visiting Maine. They met with Gov. Paul LePage at the State House in Augusta and stopped at Hall-Dale Elementary School before the Richmond visit. There were visits to Bath and Portland scheduled for later in the day.
Published
May 11, 2013

SNAPSHOT: For those in need

Sam Birch, left, and Joe Wathen roll a mail cart full of donated food into the Augusta Food Bank storage area on Saturday as part of the annual National Association of Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. “It’s one of our biggest drives of the year and fills up storage area and shelves at time of year people don’t traditionally think of hunger issues,” said Abbie Perry, executive director of the Augusta Food Bank. The group’s next big event will be a lawn sale, food drive and hot dog sale on June 1 at the Shaw’s store on Western Avenue in Augusta.
Published
May 10, 2013

SNAPSHOT: Flower photographer

Fred Davis takes a photograph of the primrose blooming in front of Fred’s Puzzles and Gifts on Thursday in Palermo. Davis said that he and his wife work in the gardens outside the business on Route 3 near the Palermo – China border.
Published
May 8, 2013

SNAPSHOT: State House shadows

A pair of women walk across the plaza between State House and Burton M. Cross State Office Building on Wednesday in Augusta. The weather forecast through the weekend calls for a chance of clouds and showers.
Published
May 7, 2013

SNAPSHOT: Blossoming stroll

Angela McKenna, left, and Tabitha Ryan, both of Augusta, push strollers underneath blossoming trees on Tuesday on the Kennebec River Rail Trail in Hallowell. Finn Ryan and Eva McKenna were both riding in Ryan’s stroller.
Published
May 7, 2013

SNAPSHOT: Safe to put it away?

Roger Badershall power washes a snowblower on Tuesday in Augusta. He joked that it was probably safe to put it away for the season now.