Retiring St. Michael School teacher John “Pete” Hickey gives seventh-graders some pointers on the driving range on Friday at Western View Golf Club 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.
STILL LIFE: Making a splash
Christopher Carron, left, of Vassalboro, and Josh Dyer, of Benton, take a spin on their personal water crafts on Thursday in China Lake in China. It was a warm and sunny day, but the water was still cold.
SNAPSHOT: Making a splash
Christopher Carron, left, of Vassalboro, and Josh Dyer, of Benton, take a spin on their personal water crafts on Thursday in China Lake in China. It was a warm and sunny day, but the water was still cold.
SNAPSHOT: Indoor fun
Sandra Watson tosses bean bags into a milk can during the Kennebec Community Church’s Memorial Weekend Block Party on Sunday at the Buker Center in Augusta. The event was supposed to be outdoors, but the carnival games, food booths and bounce houses were moved inside the building because of the rainy weekend weather.
SNAPSHOT: Union Jack, half-staff
Historical interpreter Pete Morrissey builds a mortar pit at Fort Western on Sunday in Augusta.
SNAPSHOT: Tree trimmers
Several men got out of their cars clear a fallen tree from the westbound lane of Route 17 on Saturday in Readfield.
SNAPSHOT: Bouy time
Coast Guardsmen drop a bouy into the Kennebec River on Wednesday between Chelsea and Hallowell.
PHOTO: Budget protest rally
People chant at the start of a lunchtime rally to protest Gov. Paul LePage’s budget plan on Wednesday, on the plaza outside west entrance of the State House in Augusta.
SNAPSHOT: Blaine House story time
Local author Christopher Osgood, right, of Hallowell, reads one of his short stories to a group of home-school families on Tuesday, in the sun room at Blaine House in Augusta. Osgood, who has performed readings at several area schools, has written 19 stories for children that he plans to get published in book form.
SNAPSHOT: The hanging garden of Farmingdale
Madison McCutcheon sets up a display of hanging baskets on a rainy Tuesday at the Alden Longfellow’s Greenhouses’ seasonals sales display area in the DNK Select Used Cars lot on Main Street in Farmingdale.