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.
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: 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.
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SNAPSHOT: Path of petals
Courtney Moulton, left, and Helen Dow walk over petals fallen from blooming trees on a rainy Tuesday through Johnson Hall Mini Park in downtown Gardiner. Forecasts call for a chance of rain through Saturday.
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SNAPSHOT: Pony pedi
George Spear, a farrier from Oxford, trims the hoof of a miniature horse named Chaluto on Saturday during an open house at Whispering Wood Stables in Augusta.
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SNAPSHOT: Flyin’ Hawaiian
Chris “Flyin’ Hawaiian” Thompson, of Windsor, rides in the bowl in the Augusta Skate Park during the Maine Sk8 Series Jam on Saturday, in Augusta.
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SNAPSHOT: Day of Caring
Nancy Voisine, left, and Cony High students Christina Claudel and Rebecca Coniff clean up a flower bed on Thursday at the Kennebec Valley Garden Club park in Augusta.
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SNAPSHOT: 20th annual Mutt Strut
Dogs and their walkers head east at the start of the the 20th annual Mutt Strut on Saturday, along Capitol Street in Augusta.
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SNAPSHOT: Logging some learning
Carrie Ricker School third-graders Audrey Herrick, left, and Tina Kingsbury look at a mushroom growing on a log on Thursday at The Smithfield Plantation in Litchfield. There were 103 third-graders from the school doing a variety of hands-on learning activities all day at the nature area on Libby Road.
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SNAPSHOT: Paying tribute
Law enforcement officers march around the corner from Union Street onto to State Street on their way to the Law Enforcement Memorial during a ceremony on Thursday near the State House in Augusta. Attorney General Janet Mills was the keynote speaker for the 23rd annual event, which focus’ on the granite plaques with the names of the officers who have killed in the line of duty. There were no new names to be added this year.
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SNAPSHOT: Good reads
Kelly Houston searches for more used books to buy on Thursday in the Reading Room at the Lithgow Public Library in Augusta. The book sale continues Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and then on Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon. They’re planning on having two sales a year inside the library instead of one big one at an offsite venue.