Riley Lenhart, 3 of Gardiner, takes a test drive with some toy trucks that his mother, Tona Libby, bought for him on Saturday at an charity indoor yard sale in the Knights of Columbus Council 1299 Hall in Gardiner. It was a fundraiser for Jacob Lamoreau to get hearing aids, and the Knights group was donating funds from concession and table rentals.
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: Greenway gang
Runners and walkers make their way along the banks of the Kennebec River on the Augusta Greenway trail, on the Kennebec arsenal grounds, on Friday.
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SNAPSHOT: Ballpark preparations
Norman Barbeau and other volunteers repair a dugout roof at Rivelli Field on Friday in Augusta. The field is used by Augusta Little League, whose season will open in two weeks, on May 4.
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SNAPSHOT: Lights up
Tommy Liebel plugs together sections of lighted circus ring on Thursday at the Augusta Civic Center. There will be two rings set up for the annual Kora Temple Shrine Circus this weekend. Shows are at 2 and 7 p.m. on Friday and 9:30 a.m., 2 and 7 p.m. on Saturday.
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PHOTOS AND VIDEO: Sixth annual Central Maine Strongman competition
The sixth annual Central Maine Strongman competition Saturday at the Augusta armory featured five events, including a descending deadlift, an over-the-head press medley, yoke walk, Conan’s wheel and the series stones.
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PHOTO: Three-vehicle accident on Riverside Drive in Augusta
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.
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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.