A walker with an umbrella walks through Market Square on a rainy Tuesday afternoon in downtown Augusta. It would be a good idea to those umbrellas handy, since, the National Weather Service forecast calls for rain through Thursday evening.
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: Clean up day
Marilyn Meyerhans, left, and David Worthing clean up tires from the side of Route 17 during the Manchester Conservation Committee’s roadside cleanup on Saturday morning. About fifty volunteers fanned out across the town picking up garbage. There were lots of cans, bottles, takeout coffee cups and other typical litter collected according to committee member Annie […]
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SNAPSHOT: Dierks Bentley
Jacie Twist, of Gardiner, reaches up and touches hands with Dierks Bentley during his concert Thursday night at the Augusta Civic. Twist said that she was the first person in line at noon before the show to get her front row spot. About 3000 fans attended the show that also featured opening acts Eli Young Band and Will Hoge.
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Dierks Bentley:Encore picture
Jacie Twist, of Gardiner, reaches up and touches hands with Dierks Bentley during his concert Thursday night at the Augusta Civic. Twist said that she was the first person in line at noon before the show to get her front row spot. About 3,000 fans attended the show that also featured opening acts Eli Young […]
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SNAPSHOT: PRUNING RASPERRIES
Ken Shephard prunes a raspberry patch on Thursday afternoon in Farmingdale. He said that was just cutting out the old and dead canes to make room for the new green ones to grow.
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SNAPSHOT: Detailing the demolition
Standing inside the new Damon’s Quick Stop, co-owner Pat Damon snaps a photo Wednesday of an excavator demolishing the old North Augusta Market on Route 27. There had been a market in the old building since the late 1940s. The Damon family, who also run Damon’s Beverage Mart on Augusta’s east side, have owned it […]
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SNAPSHOT: Blooming beautiful
A cyclist passes under flowering ornamental trees on the Kennebec River Rail Trail while heading into downtown Hallowell on a warm, sunny Sunday afternoon.
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SNAPSHOT: Kora Shrine Circus
Johnny Rocket turns after getting sprayed in the face by a tow truck during the Kora Shrine Circus performance Friday afternoon at the Augusta Civic Center. The circus continues today with show times at 9:30 a.m., 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
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SNAPSHOT: Earth Day seeds
Delaney Ellis and Skylan Bella, both 7 of Turner, fill their little containers with potting soil to plant corn seeds as part of Earth Day events on Thursday morning at the Children’s Discovery Museum in Augusta. The museum has been busy this week since most school children are on vacation this week, according to executive director Carrie Arsenault.
There will be Earth Day activities where children can plant seed pots and learn about recycling on Sunday too.
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SNAPSHOT: Garden work
Thomas Warner, owner/innkeeper at Benjamin Wales House, is framed by an arbor as he works in the gardens of his bed and breakfast on Thursday afternoon in Hallowell.