Augusta firefighters carry a person on backboard away from a car that slid off the road around toward a waiting stretcher around 5 p.m. on Friday, after a three-vehicle collision near Riverside Drive and Route 3 in Augusta. The accident took place in the northbound lane of Riverside Drive, just before the traffic light at Route 3. Additional details were unavailable early Friday evening.
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: Tiny bubbles
Crystal Callahan, left, and her daughter, Olivia Callahan, 9 months, watch bubbles during the Incredible Infants event on Friday in the Titcomb Children’s Room at the Lithgow Library in Augusta. Every Friday from 10 to 10:30 a.m. library aide Jeanne Frost leads a program of songs and games for infants and their caregivers.
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SNAPSHOT: Camper show
People are seen framed through a camper door as they climb in and out of campers on Friday during the 40th annual Augusta Camper and RV show at the Augusta Civic Center. Bob Cole, of America’s Best Shows, producer of the event, said this show was the first public show held at the Augusta Civic Center after it opened 40 years ago. The show runs Saturday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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SNAPSHOT: Break a leg
Monmnouth Academy student Nikolas Foulke, right, accompanies the Choralites on piano as they rehearse “Some Nights” by Fun. on Thursday in the Cumston Hall theater in Monmouth. They will be a part of the Broadway 13 show on Friday at 7 p.m. The spring musical show will feature Broadway show tunes and other musical numbers according to teacher Judy Mank.
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SNAPSHOT: Young artists
Monmouth Academy students Kayla Frost, left, and Sara Caruso hang an art show Wednesday, with work by students from eight area high schools, at The Harlow Gallery in Hallowell. There will be an opening for the Higher Forms of Art 2013 show this Friday, March 15, from 5 to 8 p.m. The show will hang from March 15 to 30. The gallery is located at 160 Water Street in Hallowell. Schools in the show are Cony, Gardiner, Hall-Dale, Maranacook, Monmouth Academy, Richmond and Winthrop.
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SNAPSHOT: State of the National Guard
Brigadier General James D. Campbell, the 39th Adjutant General of the Maine National Guard & Commissioner of the Maine Department of Defense, Veterans, and Emergency Management, left, is invited by Sen. John Tuttle to address a joint legislative convention on Tuesday at the State House in Augusta. As part of the ceremony before Campbell gave his State of the National Guard Address, members of Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee were sent to invite him give the address.
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SNAPSHOT: Log home extravaganza
Matt Rutchick puts the top layer on a display model that he and other workers from Coventry Log Homes, based in Woodsville, NH, put together on Thursday inside the Augusta Armory. The 11th Annual Maine Log Home, Timber Frame, & Restoration Show will be held there this weekend. Show hours are Friday noon to 7p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Augusta Ping Pong Extravaganza (pictures and video)
The Augusta Ping Pong Extravaganza on Saturday, at the Buker Community Center in Augusta, was a fundraiser for the movement disorders unit at MaineGeneral Medical Center, which serves patients combating Parkinson’s Disease, according to Francis Ackerman, one of the organizers.
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SNAPSHOT: Flubber furlong
Adrian Larrabee, left, takes an early lead in a Pony Hop race against his mother, Sarah Larrabee, on Thursday, during a special event at the Augusta Boys and Girls Club in the Buker Center in Augusta.
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SNAPSHOT: The cribbage crowd
Roland Nault, left, moves a peg while playing cribbage with Lou Turmelle, Peter Bernier and Lorette Beland on Tuesday at the Buker Center in Augusta. There is a weekly cribbage session for seniors there every Tuesday from noon to 3 p.m.