Messalonskee Middle School students Katelyn Naslund, far right, and Sarah Cormier, second from right, and the rest of the Infinite Fruit Loops react as their team’s robot misses performing a task during the Maine First LEGO League Championship on Saturday at the Augusta Civic Center. About 500 students on 62 teams from across the state competed in the robotics contest.
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: It’s Robotic
IT’S ROBOTIC: Messalonskee Middle School students Katelyn Naslund, far right, and Sarah Cormier, second from right, and the rest of the Infinite Fruit Loops react as their team’s robot misses a task during the Maine First LEGO League Championship on Saturday at the Augusta Civic Center. About 500 students on 62 teams from across the […]
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SNAPSHOT: Sticky Engineering
STICKY ENGINEERING: Kindergartener Trysten Legassie and his mother, Samantha Cushing, build and decorate a train from graham crackers, frosting and candy during a Math Mania event Thursday at Laura E. Richards School in Gardiner. About 150 parents and kids attended the event, which featured a pizza dinner after math games and was held to help […]
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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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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.