Robert Simons, left, and Renee Goodwin perform in the gazebo at Norcross Poin on Sunday in Winthrop.
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: Belgrade island keepers
Bill Meyer, top, and Winter Webb clean up and weed a traffic island on Friday in Belgrade Lakes.
SNAPSHOT: Post modern art
Bob Eldridge paints a sign post on Friday at College Carryout on Mount Vernon Avenue in Augusta.
SNAPSHOT: Belgrade Central School preparations
Building caretaker Dan Wilson paints the curb in front of Belgrade Central School on Friday as the school prepares for the return of students in Belgrade.
SNAPSHOT: Gardiner Area High School laptops
Melissa Gregoire puts an Apple MacBook Air into a carrying case on Wednesday at Gardiner Area High School in Gardiner.
SNAPSHOT: AugustaFest
People look over a row of antique cars parked along Water Street today during AugustaFest 2013 in downtown Augusta.
SNAPSHOT: Poodle cut
Patrick Lomantini, a hair stylist from Witchita, Kansas, cuts Marguerite Stockford’s hair on Thursday at Capillo Institute in Augusta, on the first day of the third annual BarkAid 50 State Tour.
SNAPSHOT: Capital Y Tri
Curtis Coleman rolls cones into position today as the crew from All Sports Events sets up the transition and finish area for the Capital Y Tri , between the Kennebec Valley YMCA and the State House in Augusta.
SNAPSHOT: Long Pond lunch break
Cousins Daniel McCray, 9 of Augusta, Jordan Martel, 15 of Palm Bay, Fla., and Trevor McCray, 14, of Sidney, eat pizza on the back of a boat docked behind Day’s Store on Thursday in Belgrade Lakes. They were taking a break from tubing on Long Pond with their grandfather.
SNAPSHOT: Waterfront Wednesday
People dance on a stage to the music of the band Borderline Express, which is playing inside the gazebo, on Wednesday during a Waterfront Wednesday concert in Augusta’s Waterfront Park.