A thistle flower sparkles in the sunshine on a thorny branch recently in Belgrade. The purple flower will eventually yield white, downy seeds that will disperse in the wind.
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: System flush
Adrian Beaudoin, of the Winthrop Utilities District, aims the blasts of water coming from a hydrant on Wednesday morning in downtown Winthrop. He said that it was part of the district’s annual flushing of their water lines.
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SNAPSHOT: As good as new
Joe Farina, left, and Mark Hoffman look under the hood of Hoffman’s 1929 Model A, that he and his father Kenneth Hoffman fixed up, on Wednesday morning at Mulligan’s in Manchester.
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SNAPSHOT: Concrete reflection
Meredith Wurpel is reflected in the water-covered concrete as she sprays down the recently poured pad at Alumni Field on Wednesday evening in Augusta.
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SNAPSHOT: Fresh coat of paint
Drivers exercise their horses as Ryan Brann paints the small hexagonal building inside the track at Windsor Fairgrounds on Tuesday in Windsor. Brann and other workers are getting the fairgrounds ready for this year’s annual Windsor Fair, which starts Sunday, Aug. 26.
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SNAPSHOT: Bagged the winning fish
Dave Austin, of Augusta, loads fish into a bag to be weighed at the end of the Augusta Fest bass fishing tournament on Saturday at the East Side Boat Landing.
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Video, photos: Cox Memorial Methodist Church gets new steeple
HALLOWELL — Cox Memorial Methodist Church hired steeplewright Robert Hanscom to remove the old steeple, and build and install a new one.
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SNAPSHOT: Yarn bomb
Melissa Yormac sews another flat knitted piece around the fence as part of a yarn bombing event at mile five of the Kennebec River Rail Trail on Saturday morning in Farmingdale. They were wrapping the fence and a light pole in knitted fabric. It will be reused next year or washed and assembled into blankets […]
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SNAPSHOT: Staying Dry
A woman walks in the rain down Water Street in downtown Gardiner on a rainy Tuesday morning.
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Festival de la Bastille this weekend
Manuel Barroeta, left, and Matthew Boulter, of Commercial Tent Rentals, hang wall panels on the 80 x 130-foot main tent as people set up for this weekend’s Festival de la Bastille in Augusta. The event is sponsored by Le Club Calumet and will run Friday to Sunday in the Pete Gagne Sports Field on Old […]