As the sun sets over the back of the hill behind them, a walker crosses Winthrop Street recently in Augusta.
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: Garden tour
Tammy Costigan, left, and Kathleen Quintal tour Nancy O’Laughlin’s garden during the Gardens of West Gardiner Tour on Saturday morning. There were six gardens on the first-ever tour that also included an art show of paintings, needlework and quilts. Any proceeds were to be donated to the Victoria and Macy Hickey Scholarship Fund to benefit […]
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SNAPSHOT: One if by land, two if by sea
A walker crosses the Calumet Bridge at Old Fort Western over a duo of fishermen in a boat on the Kennebec River on Saturday morning in downtown Augusta. There were only two boats out as the sun was rising over the hills and the tide was going out.
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SNAPSHOT: Fishing arsenal
Fishermen stand on the old granite docks on the Kennebec River below the Kennebec Arsenal recently in Augusta.
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SNAPSHOT: Cast away
Jayla Donohoe, 5, right, gets some help casting a lure into Cobbossee Stream from her mother Jennifer Boynton on a recent evening in Gardiner.
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SNAPSHOT: Whatever Festival today
Jonathon Prior cleans the glass of a fried-dough booth Friday afternoon in Gardiner Waterfront Park. There are many events going on today in Gardiner as part of The Greater Gardiner River Festival, which kicks off the Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Whatever Family Festival throughout Gardiner, Hallowell, Winthrop and Augusta from now through the Fourth […]
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SNAPSHOT: Saturday at the market
Customer Mercedes Longfellow, left, laughs with vendor Karen Trenholm as they visit in her Wholesome Holmstead stand on Saturday morning at the Winthrop Farmer’s Market. The market is in the town office parking lot at the corner of Highland Avenue and Maine Street on Saturday mornings from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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SNAPSHOT: Won’t be long
Nolan Brann, of Augusta, skateboards at the Augusta Skate Park as the Who Skates crew continues building the second phase bowl section in the background. He and other skateboarders said Thursday that they were looking forward to being able to use the new section, which should be ready soon.
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Doing it right
A flag held by the color guard flutters behind him as Scout Master Randy Hooper and an unidentified Boy Scout salute during Thursday evening a ceremony where unserviceable flags were respectfully disposed of by burning at the Alfred W. Maxwell Post 40 of the American Legion in WInthrop. The annual event was held on Flag […]
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SNAPSHOT: Musical tribute
Paul Bright leads Winthrop Grade School students in a song at the start of the musical tribute to late third grade teacher Bill Giasson, put on by several of his friends who were members of the Downeast Country Music Association. Giasson’s sister and his children spoke to the students and donated one of his guitars to the school before the show started. Giasson, who died in February at age 61, had facilitated the Augusta Kinship Support Group, a group for people raising a relative’s child, for 10 years. That group established a memorial music camp scholarship in his honor for four students.