SNAPSHOT: Golden harvest

Joe Phelan Kennebec Journal

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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Published
October 4, 2012

SNAPSHOT: Golden harvest

Laura Whatley, of Whatley Farm in Topsham, left, holds a bag open for customer Selma Holden, of Hallowell, to load up with golden beets on Wednesday afternoon at the Gardiner Farmers Market Wednesday afternoon on the Gardiner Common. The market is held there every Wednesday from 2 to 6 p.m.
Published
September 30, 2012

Snapshot: Junior apple grinder

Rannon Rines, 3 of Greene, turns the handle on a cider press during Applefest events on Saturday morning at The Monmouth Museum. The events included fresh apples and apple pie for sale and a 5K road race earlier in the morning.
Published
September 23, 2012

SNAPSHOT: Prickly subject

A thistle flower sparkles in the sunshine on a thorny branch recently in Belgrade. The purple flower will eventually yield white, downy seeds that will disperse in the wind.
Published
September 20, 2012

SNAPSHOT: System flush

Adrian Beaudoin, of the Winthrop Utilities District, aims the blasts of water coming from a hydrant on Wednesday morning in downtown Winthrop. He said that it was part of the district’s annual flushing of their water lines.
Published
September 19, 2012

SNAPSHOT: As good as new

Joe Farina, left, and Mark Hoffman look under the hood of Hoffman’s 1929 Model A, that he and his father Kenneth Hoffman fixed up, on Wednesday morning at Mulligan’s in Manchester.
Published
August 28, 2012

SNAPSHOT: Concrete reflection

Meredith Wurpel is reflected in the water-covered concrete as she sprays down the recently poured pad at Alumni Field on Wednesday evening in Augusta.
Published
August 15, 2012

SNAPSHOT: Fresh coat of paint

Drivers exercise their horses as Ryan Brann paints the small hexagonal building inside the track at Windsor Fairgrounds on Tuesday in Windsor. Brann and other workers are getting the fairgrounds ready for this year’s annual Windsor Fair, which starts Sunday, Aug. 26.
Published
August 12, 2012

SNAPSHOT: Bagged the winning fish

Dave Austin, of Augusta, loads fish into a bag to be weighed at the end of the Augusta Fest bass fishing tournament on Saturday at the East Side Boat Landing.
Published
August 7, 2012

Video, photos: Cox Memorial Methodist Church gets new steeple

HALLOWELL — Cox Memorial Methodist Church hired steeplewright Robert Hanscom to remove the old steeple, and build and install a new one.
Published
August 5, 2012

SNAPSHOT: Yarn bomb

Melissa Yormac sews another flat knitted piece around the fence as part of a yarn bombing event at mile five of the Kennebec River Rail Trail on Saturday morning in Farmingdale. They were wrapping the fence and a light pole in knitted fabric. It will be reused next year or washed and assembled into blankets […]