A sailboat in the Kennebec River goes past the Gardiner landing on Saturday, near where the Cobbossee Stream joins the river. There was a light breeze on the hot sunny afternoon.
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: R.B. Hall Day Music Festival
Dennis Harrington plays a cornet that belonged to R.B. Hall during the 33rd R.B. Hall Day Music Festival on Saturday at Old Fort Western in Augusta.
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SNAPSHOT VIDEO: Jazzy send-off
Mel Tukey’s Jazz Society Orchestra leads the funeral party out of Forest Grove cemetery, following services for Charles Andrews on Saturday in Augusta.
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SNAPSHOT: Star-spangled showers
An umbrella-wielding pedestrian walks past bunting-draped window and pillars on Friday in front of the Olde Federal Building in Augusta.
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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.
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SNAPSHOT: Slide splash
Katie Holmes hits the water in Three-Cornered Pond, coming off a slide on Tuesday in Augusta’s Bicentennial Nature Park.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.