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 […]
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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How very, very cranberry
David Popp said that his farm has had a good year for cranberries. They’ve already harvested 36,000 pounds and have an estimated 30,000 or 40,000 left to collect. Cranberry fields are only flooded at harvest time. They pump about six inches of water into the field, then run a water wheel machine through it to […]
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SNAPSHOT: Walk for hope Saturday
About 800 people head down a hill on Townsend Road at the start of the 8th Annual Walk for Hope Saturday morning in Augusta. The event raised $95,000 that will go to support a new Women’s Imaging and Breast Care Center at MaineGeneral’s New Regional Hospital in Augusta, according to Buffy Higgins, from the hospital’s […]
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SNAPSHOT: Dog days of fall
Foliage glows on the other side of the Kennebec River as shadows fall across the Augusta Dog Park as Shadow the dog jumps at, but misses, a toy being waved by Harry Pierce, of Gardiner, on Tuesday afternoon.
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SNAPSHOT: Oktoberfest in Belgrade
Kathy Gerard puts sauerkraut on a bratwurst as she and other volunteers served lunch Saturday at Union Methodist Church of Belgrade during Oktoberfest festivities. There was food, music and other events at several sites around the village.
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SNAPSHOT: Taking it to the streets
Cameron Gallant, left, and Jonathan Hanson play street hockey on inline skates on a recent wet afternoon in Augusta.
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SNAPSHOT: Kite runner
Siena LaMonica, 3, of Augusta, runs pulling a kite, which her father and grandfather, center, helped her launch, across Augusta’s Capitol Park on a recent sunny afternoon.
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SNAPSHOT: Next step, college
Tonya Gould, left, tries to get her seven-month-old son Briton Barnaby to look at photographer Diana Griggs, center. Her husband and fellow photographer Dennis Griggs helps Gould get her son to look up.
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SNAPSHOT: Paddle power
Paddlers head across Minnehonk Lake in Mount Vernon at the start of the third annual 30-Mile River Watershed Association Paddle Trek early Saturday morning. About 40 people participated in the trip from Mount Vernon to Wayne village.
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SNAPSHOT: Transiting the arch
Heading back towards the Kennebec River, Chris Crittenden, left, and Shanna Wheelock, both of Lubec, paddle under the granite arch of bridge the carries Water Street traffic over Bond Brook one afternoon this week in Augusta.