Lew Robichau, left, and Joe Grant, from Wingate Landscape, wrap garland around a light pole at Hallowell City Hall on Thursday afternoon. The city will hold Christmas in Old Hallowell events on Saturday, including a parade down Water Street at 5 p.m., followed by fireworks. A complete schedule of events is available at oldhallowellday.org.
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: Wrap it up
Lew Robichau, left, and Joe Grant, from Wingate Landscape, wrap garland around a light pole at Hallowell City Hall on Thursday afternoon. The city will hold Christmas in Old Hallowell events on Saturday, including a parade down Water Street at 5 p.m., followed by fireworks. A complete schedule of events is available at oldhallowellday.org.
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Show of hands
Music teacher Sue Pattershall conducts part of the grade school choir during rehearsal for the Augusta school music department’s A Capital Celebration concert on Tuesday afternoon at the Augusta Civic Center. The department’s seven music teachers and about 800 students, from third-graders through high school, put on the fifth biennial show on Tuesday night. Other […]
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SNAPSHOT: Not there anymore
Excavators demolish the old Kennebec Journal building on Saturday morning at the corner of Western Avenue and Senator Way in Augusta. Bangor Savings Bank will be an anchor tenant at 274 Western Ave., the former home of the Kennebec Journal. The MaineToday Media Inc. newspaper vacated the 50-year-old building last March and moved its front-office […]
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SNAPSHOT: The Polar Express
THE POLAR EXPRESS: Ethan Post, 3, of Sidney, watches a smoking locomotive go past him Friday afternoon outside the Maine State Museum in Augusta. The Great Falls Model Railroad Club of Auburn and Augusta’s Maine 3-Railers will display their trains in the Cultural Building atrium again from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today. Museum admission […]
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SNAPSHOT: Opening for Santa Claus
Members of Maine-Ly Harmony sing Christmas carols Thursday evening in the Johnson Hall Mini-Park in Gardiner. They were the opening act for Santa Claus, who arrived for the tree lighting at 6:30. Tonight from 5:30 to 9 :30 there will be a art walk in downtown Gardiner. Santa will be back on Water Street on Saturday, and there will be a parade at 11:30 a.m.
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SNAPSHOT: Blaine House decorated
Visitors look at the gingerbread house displayed in the Blaine House’s family dining room on Thursday afternoon in Augusta. Earlier in the week, about 42 members of the Kennebec Valley Garden Club set up decorations in the public areas. This year’s theme for the decorations was over the river and through the woods.
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SNAPSHOT: ‘Tis the season
Debra Bilodeau, left, and Jeannine Bouchard wrap lights around a railing on Saturday morning as they and other relatives help Roger Jean decorate his house on Mount Vernon Avenue in Augusta. Jean said that he’d decorated the first floor porch and yard beginning in the 1950s. Since 2004 it has became a group project as […]
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SNAPSHOT: Gasping gobblers
About 350 people ran in the Gasping Gobbler 5K Road Race to benefit Cony High School athletics in Augusta that started and finished at Cony High School. Recent Cony grad and University of Miami runner Luke Fontaine, was the first male finisher and Betsy Burke, of Boston, was the first female finisher. There were food […]
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SNAPSHOT: Doing the mashed potato
Ray Chavarie stirs mashed potatoes on Thursday morning at the Green Street United Methodist Church in Augusta. He and many other volunteers put on the church’s 32nd annual community Thanksgiving dinner. They served turkey, potatoes, peas, squash, stuffing, cheese and crackers and pies.