Gov. Paul LePage donates to the Salvation Army Thursday.
Joe Phelan
Staff Photographer
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.