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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PublishedOctober 30, 2011
SNAPSHOT: A Gift for the Children
A GIFT FOR THE CHILDREN: Dan Connolly, left, and Glenn Murphy load up cases of backpacks and food from the Feed The Children that were given for home-schooled children’s use Friday afternoon at the E.J. Prescott office in Gardiner. Connolly, a Gardiner Area High School guidance counselor, said they were distributing 960 backpacks that were […]
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PublishedOctober 29, 2011
SNAPSHOT: Touching up history in Augusta
FINISHING UP: Anthony Tafuri, of Pro Point Restoration, paints on chemicals and uses a torch to add a patina to the recently cleaned plaques on the Civil War monuments Tuesday in Augusta’s Memorial Circle. Pro Point, a company from Pittsfield, N.H., has been working for about a month on repointing the stones and cleaning and […]
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PublishedOctober 26, 2011
SNAPSHOT: Political Lessons
POLITICAL LESSONS: State Rep. Maeghan Maloney, D-Augusta, speaks Tuesday to a group of visiting European students in the State House’s Welcome Center in Augusta. The group from Denmark and some Baltic states toured the building and then spent the afternoon hearing from speakers about the American political system.
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PublishedOctober 24, 2011
SNAPSHOT: mah jongg
Janet Potter, left, and Dottie Larrabee laugh as they play mah jongg on Wednesday afternoon at the William S. Cohen Community Center in Hallowell. Mah jongg is a four player game played with tiles that originated in China. The center is located at 22 Town Farm Road and the Wednesday from 1 to 3 p.m. […]
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PublishedOctober 20, 2011
SNAPSHOT: Hands-on learning
HANDS-ON LEARNING: Ruby Dufour, 3 of Winthrop, holds a photovoltaic cell to a light bulb that powers the spinning fan in her other hand Wednesday morning at the Maine Energy Education booth during the Earth Science Day at the Maine State Museum in Augusta. About 1,000 visitors checked out the 15 displays, such as gold […]
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PublishedOctober 19, 2011
How very, very cranberry
David Popp said that his farm has had a good year for cranberries. They’ve already harvested 36,000 pounds and have an estimated 30,000 or 40,000 left to collect. Cranberry fields are only flooded at harvest time. They pump about six inches of water into the field, then run a water wheel machine through it to […]
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PublishedOctober 16, 2011
SNAPSHOT: Walk for hope Saturday
About 800 people head down a hill on Townsend Road at the start of the 8th Annual Walk for Hope Saturday morning in Augusta. The event raised $95,000 that will go to support a new Women’s Imaging and Breast Care Center at MaineGeneral’s New Regional Hospital in Augusta, according to Buffy Higgins, from the hospital’s […]
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PublishedOctober 13, 2011
SNAPSHOT: Dog days of fall
Foliage glows on the other side of the Kennebec River as shadows fall across the Augusta Dog Park as Shadow the dog jumps at, but misses, a toy being waved by Harry Pierce, of Gardiner, on Tuesday afternoon.
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PublishedOctober 8, 2011
SNAPSHOT: Oktoberfest in Belgrade
Kathy Gerard puts sauerkraut on a bratwurst as she and other volunteers served lunch Saturday at Union Methodist Church of Belgrade during Oktoberfest festivities. There was food, music and other events at several sites around the village.
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PublishedOctober 7, 2011
SNAPSHOT: Taking it to the streets
Cameron Gallant, left, and Jonathan Hanson play street hockey on inline skates on a recent wet afternoon in Augusta.
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