Tree seller Paul Peaslee ties a Christmas tree on top of a customer’s vehicle on Tuesday afternoon in Farmingdale. Peaslee said he was part of a family business that had been selling trees in the Webber’s Ice Cream parking lot for many years.
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: Tree trimmer
Working from a boom truck, Jon McKenney, of McKenney Tree Service, strings lights on a large tree between the City Hall and RE/MAX Capital Chris Vallee Associates on Winthrop Street in Hallowell.
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SNAPSHOT: Artistree Christmas Open House craft fair
Rachel Soucy knits a hat as she waits for customers at the Spinnakee’s Farm display during the 24th annual Artistree Christmas Open House on Friday morning in Belgrade. The craft show, with about 40 vendors, continues through the weekend at the Belgrade Community Center for All Seasons on Route 27. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday.
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SNAPSHOT: Make, Take and Bake
Lauren Miller, 5 of Winthrop, cranks an apple peeler-slicer on Wednesday afternoon at the Children’s Discovery Museum in Augusta.
She and other children made a crust, prepared apples and covered it all with a crumb topping during the museum’s annual Make, Take and Bake event.
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SNAPSHOT: Diner decorator
Neil Andersen decorates with berries and evergreens on Tuesday afternoon in the planter boxes on the front of the A1 Diner in Gardiner.
Andersen said that it was the changing of the seasons and that he’d just taken down the pumpkins that had been lining the roof of the diner, built by the Worcester Dining Car Company in 1948, according to the diner’s website.
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PHOTOS: Gasping Gobbler 5K Road Race in Augusta
The annual Gasping Gobbler 5K Road Race took place Thursday at Cony High School in Augusta. There were over 400 finishers in the annual Thanksgiving day race that gave food for prizes. The first male and female finisher got a trophy and full Thanksgiving dinner. In the each age group, the prizes were a turkey for first place, pie for second place and then dinner rolls for third.
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SNAPSHOT: Christmas burrito wrap
Raeanna Gormatov wraps colorful tinsel around a pole on Tuesday afternoon inside the front window of Lisa’s Legit Burritos on Water Street in downtown Gardiner.
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SNAPSHOT: Brush burn
Herbert Wave burns brush on a cool and sunny Thursday afternoon near his Winthrop home.
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SNAPSHOT: Christmas lights
City worker Andy Chavarie strings holiday lights on a tree Thursday afternoon in Augusta Waterfront Park. Chavarie and and a coworker were putting almost 3,000 lights on several trees near the gazebo alongside the Kennebec River.
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SNAPSHOT: Commons cleaner
Gardiner city worker Pat Chadwick rakes leaves towards tube that sucks them into a truck on Wednesday afternoon. He was part of a crew cleaning up leaves on the Gardiner Common.