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Cony captain Jonny Lettre (69) holds up the boot trophy as the Cony Rams celebrate winning the annual rivalry football game against Gardiner on Friday, Oct. 20, in Augusta. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal
Caribou’s Braydon Brescia, center, heads the ball between Winslow’s Tyler Nadeau, right, and Jacob Owen during a Class B North boys soccer quarterfinal game Wednesday at Messalonskee High School. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
Hall-Dale’s Jaxson Olsen runs past Winthrop goalie Jaxson August during a Class C South boys soccer quarterfinal game Wednesday in Farmingdale. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal
Vocalist and saxophonist Darmon Meader, left, performs with the Al Corey Band during a tribute concert Sunday, Oct. 22, in memory of longtime local musician and music teacher Gerry Wright, at the J. Duke Albanese Performing Arts Center at Messalonskee High School in Oakland. Wright, of Winslow, died Oct. 1. He was 89. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
After attaching the line, Larry Ridley, of L&J Outboard Repair, hops off the trailer and starts winching in Jennifer Tweedie’s boat Thursday at Norcross Point in Winthrop. Ridley was then going to shrink wrap the boat to store it over the winter. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal
The Maine State House is seen behind fall foliage Wednesday in this view from across the Kennebec River in Augusta. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel
Handmade and heart-shape notes were placed on Main Street on Thursday in Lewiston. The notes send love to those affected by the tragedy of this week’s deadly shootings as they read “To My Friends,” “To My Home,” and “To My Community.” Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel
Volunteers Diane Weinstein, left, and Aaron Esposito of the Waterville Community Land Trust use soil and chicken wire Tuesday to prepare flower beds for bulbs at Lashus Farm Neighborhood Park in Waterville. Weinstein and Esposito are pressing chicken wire into the flower bed to discourage squirrels from digging up newly planted bulbs. The volunteers are planting tulips, daffodils and hyacinths. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
Mary Beth Soule and Cindy Kocher, at rear, of Fieldstone Gardens do some fall cleanup and take inventory of plants at the garden center and nursery in Vassalboro on Wednesday. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel
Monmouth Memorial School eighth graders Olivia Kilton, left, and Aubrey Abbott rake leaves Tuesday in front of Cumston Hall in Monmouth. The entire eighth grade class cleaned up around the historic community building and adjacent Monmouth Center Cemetery. It was part of the school’s Day of Caring, sponsored by United Way of Kennebec Valley, in which students did service projects around the Monmouth, North Monmouth and Winthrop areas. 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...

Anna is a 2023 graduate of Thomas College in Waterville where she received her Master’s in Business Administration and her undergraduate degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus in marketing...

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...