SNAPSHOT: Yarn bomb

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
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 […]
Published
July 18, 2012

SNAPSHOT: Staying Dry

A woman walks in the rain down Water Street in downtown Gardiner on a rainy Tuesday morning.
Published
July 11, 2012

Festival de la Bastille this weekend

Manuel Barroeta, left, and Matthew Boulter, of Commercial Tent Rentals, hang wall panels on the 80 x 130-foot main tent as people set up for this weekend’s Festival de la Bastille in Augusta. The event is sponsored by Le Club Calumet and will run Friday to Sunday in the Pete Gagne Sports Field on Old […]
Published
July 11, 2012

Festival de la Bastille nears

Manuel Barroeta, left, and Matthew Boulter, of Commercial Tent Rentals, hang wall panels on the 80 x 130-foot main tent as people set up for this weekend’s Festival de la Bastille in Augusta. The event is sponsored by Le Club Calumet and will run Friday to Sunday in the Pete Gagne Sports Field on Old […]
Published
July 8, 2012

SNAPSHOT: Summer glare

As the sun sets over the back of the hill behind them, a walker crosses Winthrop Street recently in Augusta.
Published
July 2, 2012

SNAPSHOT: Garden tour

Tammy Costigan, left, and Kathleen Quintal tour Nancy O’Laughlin’s garden during the Gardens of West Gardiner Tour on Saturday morning. There were six gardens on the first-ever tour that also included an art show of paintings, needlework and quilts. Any proceeds were to be donated to the Victoria and Macy Hickey Scholarship Fund to benefit […]
Published
July 1, 2012

SNAPSHOT: One if by land, two if by sea

A walker crosses the Calumet Bridge at Old Fort Western over a duo of fishermen in a boat on the Kennebec River on Saturday morning in downtown Augusta. There were only two boats out as the sun was rising over the hills and the tide was going out.
Published
June 30, 2012

SNAPSHOT: Fishing arsenal

Fishermen stand on the old granite docks on the Kennebec River below the Kennebec Arsenal recently in Augusta.
Published
June 28, 2012

SNAPSHOT: Cast away

Jayla Donohoe, 5, right, gets some help casting a lure into Cobbossee Stream from her mother Jennifer Boynton on a recent evening in Gardiner.
Published
June 23, 2012

SNAPSHOT: Whatever Festival today

Jonathon Prior cleans the glass of a fried-dough booth Friday afternoon in Gardiner Waterfront Park. There are many events going on today in Gardiner as part of The Greater Gardiner River Festival, which kicks off the Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Whatever Family Festival throughout Gardiner, Hallowell, Winthrop and Augusta from now through the Fourth […]