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.
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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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SNAPSHOT: Rainy ride
Oliver Gadebirk-St. Pierre, 14 months, gets pushed by his mother, Sine Gadebirk-St. Pierre, in the rain today in Hallowell.
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SNAPSHOT: Holiday at the Capitol
Charlie Conley, left, of Waterville, chats with U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud during the annual Central Maine Labor Council Annual Labor Day Picnic on Sunday at Capitol Park in Augusta.