PREPPING FOR A FEAST: Phil McSweeney loads apple pies, for today’s Thanksgiving community dinner, into the oven Wednesday morning at St. Francis Parish Hall in Winthrop. The hall will be open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Winthrop Rotary will host a free Thanksgiving dinner from 12:30 to 1 p.m. There is no cost […]
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: Checking it twice
Karen Zeleniak zip ties a string of lights onto a bush Tuesday in Augusta. The blue and white snowflakes are just some of the thousands of lights that she and her husband Dr. Darryl Zeleniak strung up in front of his office at the corner of State and Green Streets across from the Gov. Hill Mansion. The display is synchronized to holiday songs and will start Friday. “We’re trying to turn ‘Black Friday’ into White Friday,” said Dr. Zeleniak.
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SNAPSHOT: Christmas is coming
Volunteer Katie Varney fills up a bag of cookies for a customer on Saturday during the St. Michael Christmas Fair in Augusta. There were several area groups holding Christmas or holiday fairs on the weekend before Thanksgiving.
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SNAPSHOT: Building champions
Waterville High School student Billy Durand watches a large computer screen as he runs the controls on an excavator simulator during the 12th annual Craft Championships sponsored by Associated Builders and Contractors on Friday at the Augusta Civic Center. About 1,000 students from 17 regional vocational technical centers across the state attended the event, which featured 25 demonstrations with master craftsmen and skills competitions. Winners of the regional event go to compete at the Associated Builders and Contractors national convention next spring.
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SNAPSHOT: Virtual vocational
Waterville High School student Billy Durand watches a large computer screen as he runs the controls on an excavator simulator during the 12th annual Craft Championships sponsored by Associated Builders and Contractors on Friday at the Augusta Civic Center. About 1,000 students from 17 regional vocational technical centers across the state attended the event, which […]
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Steve Morse, left, and David Auclair set up racks for the 63rd Annual Abnaki Ski Sale on Friday afternoon at the Viles Arboretum in Augusta. The sale runs today from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and features new and used alpine and nordic skis, snowboards, snowshoes, skates and apparel Viles Arboretum is located at 153 […]
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SNAPSHOT: Early Thanksgiving
Virginia Allen, of Augusta, left, and Esther Shaw, of Chelsea serve themselves during the Chelsea Senior Citizens Thanksgiving dinner Monday afternoon. The group meets every Monday starting at 11 a.m. at the Chelsea Senior Hall, 62 Windsor Road. President Johan Brown joked that the group had Thanksgiving a week early because, “why push the food […]
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SNAPSHOT: Raking up autumn
There are still leaves up on the branches, as Megan Hopkin rakes up a hilly yard on Saturday in Hallowell.
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SNAPSHOT: Saluting those who served
SALUTING THOSE WHO SERVED: Navy veterans Patricia Marvin, of East Winthrop, front, and Richard Duncan, of Augusta, sing the national anthem during the Veterans Day lunch Thursday at the Cohen Center in Hallowell. The center served a total of 230 lunches, 97 of them to veterans, according to center coordinator Maggie Tardiff. There were 19 […]
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SNAPSHOT: Motorcycle Memorial
MOTORCYCLE MEMORIAL: About 40 motorcyclists arrive for the Memorial Mass of Christian burial for Simone M. Duplessis on Wednesday morning at St. Augustine Church in Augusta. The group — with members of the Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association and the Harley Owners Group Mid-Maine Chapter — met up and rode in from Lewiston in honor of […]