Dave Austin, of Augusta, loads fish into a bag to be weighed at the end of the Augusta Fest bass fishing tournament on Saturday at the East Side Boat Landing.
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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Video, photos: Cox Memorial Methodist Church gets new steeple
HALLOWELL — Cox Memorial Methodist Church hired steeplewright Robert Hanscom to remove the old steeple, and build and install a new one.
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SNAPSHOT: Yarn bomb
Melissa Yormac sews another flat knitted piece around the fence as part of a yarn bombing event at mile five of the Kennebec River Rail Trail on Saturday morning in Farmingdale. They were wrapping the fence and a light pole in knitted fabric. It will be reused next year or washed and assembled into blankets […]
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SNAPSHOT: Staying Dry
A woman walks in the rain down Water Street in downtown Gardiner on a rainy Tuesday morning.
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Festival de la Bastille this weekend
Manuel Barroeta, left, and Matthew Boulter, of Commercial Tent Rentals, hang wall panels on the 80 x 130-foot main tent as people set up for this weekend’s Festival de la Bastille in Augusta. The event is sponsored by Le Club Calumet and will run Friday to Sunday in the Pete Gagne Sports Field on Old […]
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Festival de la Bastille nears
Manuel Barroeta, left, and Matthew Boulter, of Commercial Tent Rentals, hang wall panels on the 80 x 130-foot main tent as people set up for this weekend’s Festival de la Bastille in Augusta. The event is sponsored by Le Club Calumet and will run Friday to Sunday in the Pete Gagne Sports Field on Old […]
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SNAPSHOT: Summer glare
As the sun sets over the back of the hill behind them, a walker crosses Winthrop Street recently in Augusta.
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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.