SPEAKING UP: Supporters cheer after Matt Schlobohm, the executive director of the Maine AFL-CIO, finishes up a rally for Labor Lobby Day in the State House in Augusta. Union members had lobbied legislators earlier in the day before the noon rally Thursday. The shoes on the table were props for the “walk in our shoes” […]
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: Due process protest
About two dozen people gathered at noon Friday outside the Muskie Federal Building in Augusta to protest the National Defense Authorization Act and the votes of support by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins and U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe.
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SNAPSHOT: Digging deep
Scott Collins busts through the icy crust-covered snow as digs out a sidewalk on Saturday afternoon the day after a storm dumped snow followed by sleet and rain across the area.
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SNAPSHOT: Wintry mix in Gardiner
Valentine’s Day decorations in the Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center office window frame a vehicle splashing down Water Street in downtown Gardiner on Friday afternoon.
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SNAPSHOT: Bait and switch
Nicholas Jacques, of Sidney, puts a trap back into a hole in Messalonskee Lake after checking the bait on Thursday afternoon. Jacques and other ice fisherman described the fishing as slow.
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SNAPSHOT: Snow of silence
A nordic skier is framed by trees as more snow falls on the trails Saturday morning at the Viles Arboretum in Augusta.
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SNAPSHOT: Snow day
Jamie Tansey smiles at his son, Eamon Tansey, 4, both of Sidney, as they walk back up the sledding hill Friday afternoon at Mill Park in Augusta.
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SNAPSHOT: After the crash
Ross Hutchings II, of Hutchings Electric, installs a street light on Wednesday after on Water Street in downtown Augusta. He was replacing one that was destroyed when a tractor-trailer rolled over after hitting the nearby railroad trestle last week.
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SNAPSHOT: Strike up the band
Robbie Cooper plays the baritone horn Tuesday as the Cony Middle School Band rehearses for its upcoming Caribbean Festival Concert, which raises money for a spring trip to Washington, D.C. The Caribbean Festival is at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25, at Cony High School. Tickets are $8 apiece. Dwight TIbbetts, right, leads the band […]
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SNAPSHOT: Even colder
A car splashes through a large puddle on Bangor Street in Augusta as temperatures warmed above the freezing mark Friday afternoon, a day after a storm dumped several inches of snow, followed by sleet and rain. Today’s forecast calls for much colder temperatures with, highs in the teens.