Charlie Erskine, of Erskine Farms, left, and Dalziel Lewis, of Dig Deep Farm, set up under the gazebo for the weekly farmers’ market on Tuesday in Mill Park in Augusta. The winter market runs every Tuesday from 12:30 to 2 p.m. through May, when the hours will change. Mill Park is on Northern Avenue, between downtown and Sand Hill.
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.
SNAPSHOT: Tattoo you
On Saturday, artists drew temporary, henna-style tattoos at the Gardiner Public Library.
SNAPSHOT: Mill Park sledders
Kelsey Morin, left, and her daughter, Hadleigh Morin, 4, both of South China, slide down the Mill Park sledding hill on Tuesday in Augusta. There were several groups of sledders there on the New Year’s Day holiday. The sledding hill is near corner of Northern Avenue and Canal Street, between Sand Hill and downtown Augusta.
SNAPSHOT: Arboretum trails
Cross country skiers curve around a bend in the trail on Tuesday at the Viles Arboretum in Augusta. There are several miles of groomed ski trails at the arboretum, which is located at 153 Hospital St.
SNAPSHOT: Pajama parade
About 20 people dressed in pajamas and bathrobes or coats cross Water Street in downtown Hallowell on their way from an apartment, where they gathered on their way to a New Year’s Day brunch at Slates Restaurant, on Tuesday. One of the organizers said that pajamas for brunch has been a holiday tradition for them for at least 10 years.
SNAPSHOT: Snow machine
Justin Lord Willett, 12, runs a snowblower on the back of a farm tractor to clear a a work area on Tuesday in Hallowell.
SNAPSHOT: Reflections on the past
Meg Mourey, left, an antiques dealer from Lancaster, N.H., shows a piece of pottery to Miriam Buckley, of Damarine Antiques, on Tuesday at the 22nd annual New Year’s Day Antique Sale at the Augusta armory. There were 45 antiques dealers at the show.
SNAPSHOT: Fitness on a frigid first
A runner out for a cold New Year’s Day jaunt heads east over the Memorial Bridge on Tuesday in downtown Augusta. The forecast for the rest of the week will be cold, with high temperatures forecast just up to the teens and 20s.
SNAPSHOT: New year noisemakers
Joani Gavett, left, and Nancy Bunker, both of Mount Vernon, ring in the New Year by blowing noisemakers at noon on Monday at the Cohen Center in Hallowell. Organizers said noon here corresponded with midnight in Indonesia. About a 100 people attended the New Year’s luncheon.
SNAPSHOT: Good as new
Kris Devine paints the newly installed wooden trim in the public stairway between Water Street and the Arcade parking lot on Dec. 14 in downtown Gardiner. Work is also under way at the top of the stairway, where the former Mad Dog Pub is being renovated and will reopen as Alex Parker’s Steak House.