Gov. Paul LePage walks out of the polling booth on Tuesday morning at Augusta City Hall. LePage, who moved to the Blaine House in Augusta when he won last year’s election, voted for the first time in his new city.
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: Free to breathe
FREE TO BREATHE: People walk down Water Street during third annual Free to Breathe Walk Saturday in Augusta.They were on a 1.6-mile loop that began and ended at Augusta City Center. About 250 people walked in the event and raised $30,000 to benefit the National Lung Cancer Partnership’s research, education and awareness programs.
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SNAPSHOT: Steeple People
STEEPLE PEOPLE: A crane lifts the steeple off Cox Memorial Methodist Church in Hallowell Friday morning. Steeplewright Robert Hanscom and a crew from Cote Crane Services removed the old steeple of the church at the corner of Central and Middle streets. Hanscom was hired to build a replacement, to be installed next year.
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SNAPSHOT: 105 Years Young
105 YEARS YOUNG: MaryAnne Berube, left, chats with staffer Darcey Botbyl during a party for her 105th birthday on Thursday at the Capt. Lewis Residence in Farmingdale. Berube was born in Waterville, grew up in Winslow, where she was the 11th of 15 children. She raised three children in Auburn and moved to Farmingdale about […]
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SNAPSHOT: A Gift for the Children
A GIFT FOR THE CHILDREN: Dan Connolly, left, and Glenn Murphy load up cases of backpacks and food from the Feed The Children that were given for home-schooled children’s use Friday afternoon at the E.J. Prescott office in Gardiner. Connolly, a Gardiner Area High School guidance counselor, said they were distributing 960 backpacks that were […]
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SNAPSHOT: Touching up history in Augusta
FINISHING UP: Anthony Tafuri, of Pro Point Restoration, paints on chemicals and uses a torch to add a patina to the recently cleaned plaques on the Civil War monuments Tuesday in Augusta’s Memorial Circle. Pro Point, a company from Pittsfield, N.H., has been working for about a month on repointing the stones and cleaning and […]
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SNAPSHOT: Political Lessons
POLITICAL LESSONS: State Rep. Maeghan Maloney, D-Augusta, speaks Tuesday to a group of visiting European students in the State House’s Welcome Center in Augusta. The group from Denmark and some Baltic states toured the building and then spent the afternoon hearing from speakers about the American political system.
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SNAPSHOT: mah jongg
Janet Potter, left, and Dottie Larrabee laugh as they play mah jongg on Wednesday afternoon at the William S. Cohen Community Center in Hallowell. Mah jongg is a four player game played with tiles that originated in China. The center is located at 22 Town Farm Road and the Wednesday from 1 to 3 p.m. […]
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SNAPSHOT: Hands-on learning
HANDS-ON LEARNING: Ruby Dufour, 3 of Winthrop, holds a photovoltaic cell to a light bulb that powers the spinning fan in her other hand Wednesday morning at the Maine Energy Education booth during the Earth Science Day at the Maine State Museum in Augusta. About 1,000 visitors checked out the 15 displays, such as gold […]