An umbrella-wielding pedestrian walks past bunting-draped window and pillars on Friday in front of the Olde Federal Building 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.
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.
SNAPSHOT: Slide splash
Katie Holmes hits the water in Three-Cornered Pond, coming off a slide on Tuesday in Augusta’s Bicentennial Nature Park.
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.
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.
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.
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.
SNAPSHOT: Crossing paths
A group of motorcyclists, cruising to VA Maine Healthcare Systems-Togus for the 12th Annual Togus Veterans Car Show, and walkers, taking part in the Amy Buxton’s Underdog Jog Memorial 5K Run and Walk, wave at each other as they cross pathes on Cony Road on Saturday in Augusta.
SNAPSHOT: Ride Into Summer in Gardiner
Children ride bicycles down Water Street on Saturday in downtown Gardiner as part of the 4th annual Ride into Summer.
SNAPSHOT: UMA’s open-hangar day
David Smith, Maine Instrument Flight’s chief pilot, leads a line of riders who won a raffle out to a Beechcraft Bonanza for a ride during the University of Maine at Augusta bachelor of science in aviation’s open-hangar day event on Friday at the Augusta State Airport.