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.
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: 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.
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PHOTOS: Gov. LePage makes State of the State address
Gov. Paul LePage makes his opening remarks at Tuesday’s State of the State address, at the State House in Augusta.
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SNAPSHOT: Baby, it’s cold outside
Denisa Laflamme, of Lewiston, warms up beside the wood stove at the Vassalboro Public Library Wednesday. The wood stove is part of the library’s logo. Hours are Mondays and Wednesday from 12:30 to 8 p.m., and Saturday’s from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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SNAPSHOT: Finger freeze
After putting his gloves on, Tyler Kalloch claps his hands to keep warm Tuesday while working the full service gas pumps at the J&S Oil Xpress Stop Convenience Store in Farmingdale. Kalloch said it helps to dress in several layers and to keep moving while working outside on cold mornings – such as the ones this week when the temperature dropped into the single digits.
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SNAPSHOT: Frame of reference
Matt Brennan’s breath looks like a cloud around his head as he works outside in the cold weather on Friday at the Grand View Timber Frames display site on Western Avenue in Manchester. It was a beautiful sunny afternoon, but very cold, with temperatures not getting out of the low teens. The Winthrop-based company constructs log and timber-frame houses and barns.
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SNAPSHOT: Clear the way
Andrew Nichols clears a driveway with a small plow on his garden tractor on Thursday in Hallowell. The storm the day before had dumped 3 to 4 inches of snow across the area.