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Mt. Blue’s Charles Stevens, top, and Nolan Leso, bottom, battle for a jump-ball against Messalonskee’s Drake Brunelle during a boys basketball game Tuesday in Oakland. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel
Messalonskee’s Tyler Hansen, left, tries to follow up on a rebound from a missed shot but Cony/Hall-Dale//Monmouth/Maranacook/Winthrop/Erskine/Richmond goalie Landon Foster, left, and defenseman Luke Johnson keep the puck out during a boys hockey game Tuesday in Kents Hill. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal
Gardiner’s Addy Serber high-fives youth basketball players Friday, Jan. 19, during Youth Night in Gardiner. All the youth girls basketball teams in Gardiner, from kindergarten through middle school, including in-house and travel teams, were recognized during the girls varsity game against Skowhegan. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel
Lisbon finished first in Mountain Valley Conference cheering championship with a score of 82.15 on Saturday, Jan. 20, at the Augusta Civic Center. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal
Waterville’s Maddie Yakimchick hits the sand during the long jump at on Friday, Jan. 19, KVAC indoor track and field meet at Bowdoin College in Brunswick. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal
John Merrill, owner of Merrill’s Bookshop at 110 Water St. in Hallowell, sits inside his store on Saturday, Jan. 20. Merrill says he lost 8 tons of books during historic flooding in December. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel
Facing camera from left, Ken Paul, Benjamin Pierce, Adrian O’Connell and Kevin McKenney pull a liner as Jeff Pierce stands in water and pushes air bubbles out from beneath the liner while flooding the Clinton Parks & Rec Ice Skating Rink at Old Mill Park in Clinton on Wednesday night, Jan. 17. Pierce is the rink superintendent and co-director of Clinton Parks & Recreation. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
Mallard ducks spar Monday, Jan. 22, on the Kennebec River in Skowhegan. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
Burt Hazelton, a cook at Meridians Kitchen and Bar in Fairfield, prepares lobster for Thursday’s dinner menu. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel
A pedestrian crosses Main Street in downtown Madison on Thursday afternoon as snow and ice melt due to temperatures in the low 40s. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
Kassie Brown, left, and her sons Logan MacArthur, 11, center, and Owen MacArthur, 9, warm themselves by a fire while taking part in the opening day of skating at the Clinton Parks & Recreation Ice Skating Rink at Old Mill Park in Clinton on Sunday, Jan. 21. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel

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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...

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...

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...