Jayla Donohoe, 5, right, gets some help casting a lure into Cobbossee Stream from her mother Jennifer Boynton on a recent evening in Gardiner.
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: Whatever Festival today
Jonathon Prior cleans the glass of a fried-dough booth Friday afternoon in Gardiner Waterfront Park. There are many events going on today in Gardiner as part of The Greater Gardiner River Festival, which kicks off the Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Whatever Family Festival throughout Gardiner, Hallowell, Winthrop and Augusta from now through the Fourth […]
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SNAPSHOT: Saturday at the market
Customer Mercedes Longfellow, left, laughs with vendor Karen Trenholm as they visit in her Wholesome Holmstead stand on Saturday morning at the Winthrop Farmer’s Market. The market is in the town office parking lot at the corner of Highland Avenue and Maine Street on Saturday mornings from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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SNAPSHOT: Won’t be long
Nolan Brann, of Augusta, skateboards at the Augusta Skate Park as the Who Skates crew continues building the second phase bowl section in the background. He and other skateboarders said Thursday that they were looking forward to being able to use the new section, which should be ready soon.
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Doing it right
A flag held by the color guard flutters behind him as Scout Master Randy Hooper and an unidentified Boy Scout salute during Thursday evening a ceremony where unserviceable flags were respectfully disposed of by burning at the Alfred W. Maxwell Post 40 of the American Legion in WInthrop. The annual event was held on Flag […]
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SNAPSHOT: Musical tribute
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.
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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 […]