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.
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: Farmers market
Elysia Cribs, of Broken Acres Farm in Jefferson, chats with a customer at the Augusta Farmers’ Market in the Turnpike Mall on a rainy Wednesday morning. The market is held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays in the parking lot near the corner of Western Avenue and Whitten Road.
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SNAPSHOT: Carrying the torch
Kennebec County Sheriff’s deputies Scott Mills, left, Cpl. G.J. Neagle III, and Dracco, his police dog, along with Waterville Police Officers Jennifer Weaver and Lincoln Ryder, run a leg of the Special Olympics Torch Run through Vassalboro into Winslow on Thursday. They were joined by several members of the Waterville High School track team in Winslow. Law enforcement officers across the state are taking part in torch runs that will converge in Orono for the state Special Olympics this weekend. Winthrop officers ran a part of a leg from Lewiston to Augusta and Augusta police and fire department members took a leg through the capital city from Hallowell to Vassalboro.
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SNAPSHOT: What a blast
Quentin Sprague, left, and Jackman Wood spray concrete from a hose onto the curved wall in the new addition to the Augusta Skate Park on Wednesday morning in Augusta. The men were part of the crew from Who Skates, the Kennebunkport based company, hired to build the approximately 60-by-70 foot addition to the park. The […]
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SNAPSHOT: Here come the Democrats
Hanna Willwerth works on delegate credentials, on Thursday afternoon, the day before the Democratic Party state convention opens, at the Augusta Civic Center. She is a Greeley High School senior and doing a senior project internship with the state party.
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SNAPSHOT: Back in the day
Mark Rohman, a re-enactor from James Howard’s Company, right, talks to visitors about his musket and military life during the colonial period at Old Fort Western on Sunday afternoon in Augusta. The fort will be open daily from 1 to 4 p.m. from now till Labor Day and then open those same hours on weekends […]
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SNAPSHOT: Chasing his shadow
An early morning cyclist heads out of Waterfront Park in Gardiner on a warm, sunny Sunday.
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SNAPSHOT: Monumental task
Nate Taczli power washes one of the monuments in the Hallowell Cemetery on Friday morning. He and another Masciadri Monuments employee were cleaning stones in the cemetery located on Water Street.
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SNAPSHOT: Thank you for your service
Colby Russell-Leo salutes after placing a flag in a holder in front of the gravestone of a veteran Friday at Plains Cemetery in Litchfield.