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.
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: 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.
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STILL LIFE: Silver coins for women veterans
Shirley Chen, of Fairfield Center, who served as an Army private first class from 1979 to 1981, left, and Ruth Marshall Gilmore, of South China, who served as a sergeant in the Marine Corps from 1954-56, chat after the ceremony to present a commemorative silver coin to Maine women veterans on Friday afternoon in the Chapel at at the VA Healthcare Systems Maine Medical Center – Togus.
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SNAPSHOT: Silver coins for women veterans
Shirley Chen, of Fairfield Center, who served as an Army private first class from 1979 to 1981, left, and Ruth Marshall Gilmore, of South China, who served as a sergeant in the Marine Corps from 1954-56, chat after the ceremony to present a commemorative silver coin to Maine women veterans on Friday afternoon in the Chapel at at the VA Healthcare Systems Maine Medical Center – Togus.
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SNAPSHOT: Halloween at the Gardiner Common
Sedona Kmen paints a pumpkin during Halloween events on Wednesday afternoon at the Gardiner Farmers Market on the Common. Besides the the usual market stalls, there were face painting and games for the holiday.
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SNAPSHOT: Laying up for the winter
Jerry Maschino works on getting his boat Explorer ready for winter storage on Friday afternoon near his Gardiner. He said that she was built in Stonington in 1949 and had been moored over the summer in the nearby Kennebec River.
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SNAPSHOT: YAHTZEE
Hallee McCarthy, 3, left, leads her sisters Chloe, 4, right, and Taylor, 3 center, as the three girls from West Gardiner, walk down Water Street on Friday afternoon in downtown Gardiner. Hundreds of people were trick or treating at businesses on the street before a parade and costume were held.