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Baseball fans brace against rain as Hampden Academy players and coaches walk the field between innings during their game with Messalonskee on Wednesday at Messalonskee High School in Oakland. The game was completed in spite of the rain, with Messalonskee winning 4-2 in the Class A North quarterfinal matchup. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
Athletes compete in the 1,600-meter run at the Class C championship track meet Saturday, June 3, at Cony High School in Augusta. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel
Hermon third basemen Tommy Meserve applies a late tag on Cony right fielder Lance Theriault at third base during a Class B North quarterfinal game Wednesday at Morton Field in Augusta. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal
Maine Central Institute’s Emma Burr gathers herself after winning the 100-meter hurdles at the Class C championship meet Saturday, June 3, at Cony High School in Augusta. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel
Gardiner’s Jacoby Brady (6) and Greely’s Matt Hutnak fall to the turf during a Class B boys lacrosse prelim game Tuesday in Gardiner. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel
Messalonskee’s Ty Bernier strikes a pose for teammates after he slid safely into third base against Hampden during a Class A North baseball quarterfinal game Wednesday in Oakland. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
Winslow High School senior Nevaeh Parker is reflected in glass Wednesday as she waits for the start of the school’s 121st commencement ceremony at the Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center at Colby College in Waterville. Michael G. Seamans/Morning Sentinel
Graduate Mary Celado holds her diploma Sunday, June 4, as Diane Crockett takes a photo during the commencement program of Skowhegan Area High School at the school. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
Melissa Goodwin, an assistant academic chair with Purdue Global, is shown Tuesday at Northern Light Inland Hospital in Waterville with some of the equipment that’s part of a new simulation center that offers enhanced training for nursing students and others. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
Fourth-graders from Carrie Ricker School watch Thursday as Stan Novak, a reenactor from Old Fort Western, fires a musket at Smithfield Plantation in Litchfield. The students were learning about dowsing for water, making butter, cooking applesauce and cornbread and what life was like for soldiers in the French and Indian War, which was fought from 1754 to 1763. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal

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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...

Michael is a Maine-raised photojournalist who has been on staff at the Morning Sentinel since August 2010. He is a 2002 graduate of Sterling College in Vermont where he studied experiential education with...

Andy started his photojournalism career with the Kennebec Journal in 1995. Over the years, he has won numerous Maine Press Association awards for his images of Maine people, places and events and contributed...

Rich is a career photojournalist and writer who got his start in newspapers in 1987 at the Fort Morgan Times in Colorado. His appreciation for photography and stories began as a kid while watching slide...