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A scooter rider cruises alongside Main Street in downtown Waterville on Monday, Aug. 5,just before the midpoint of summer. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
Bob Heap of Smokey’s Greater Shows hands a prize Thursday to Payton Naillon, 8, after she won at Star Darts on the midway at the Skowhegan State Fair, which runs through Aug. 17. At right: Naillon’s friend Liliana Dawes, 7, of Solon. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
A gull solicits food from the hood of a car on Sunday, Aug. 4, where diners parked at the Gardiner waterfront on the Kennebec River. The community has a civil ordinance prohibiting the feeding of avian scavengers at the boat landing. Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal
First grade teacher Olivia Bourque prepares her classroom Thursday for the upcoming school year at Hall-Dale Elementary School at 26 Garden Lane in Hallowell. Classes are scheduled to begin Sept. 3. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel
Mark Paisley, center, leads a the pack of sailboats toward a buoy during a race on Thursday, Aug. 1, on Cobbossee Lake in Manchester. Currently, the club members race the International Laser Class dinghies, a class of boat that are raced in the Olympics. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal
Tempe Favreau, who is playing Harmonia Ranger, practices onstage during rehearsal for “Math Magic!” The performance on Friday, Aug. 2, was the last for Sum Camp 2024, a summer day camp held at Waterville Senior High School. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel
Sandy White hands Toni Jo Blaisdell an oil painting to hang Tuesday in the photography and arts and crafts exhibit at the Skowhegan State Fair. The nation’s oldest consecutively running agricultural fair opens Thursday at the Skowhegan fairgrounds on Constitution Avenue. Anna Chadwick/Morning Sentinel
Standing in front of an old stage curtain with advertisements and a mural on the second floor of Starling Hall in Fayette on Wednesday, Jon Beekman, a member of Friends of Starling Hall, adjusts a Grange ribbon on an old copy of the Bible. Joe Phelan/Kennebec Journal
Mae Ryan, 4, tastes wild blueberries on Sunday, Aug. 4, as her mother, Kate Ryan, holds a blueberry rake. They were picking berries during Wild Blueberry Weekend at Fields Fields farm in Dresden. Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel
Tom Fair samples an ear of sweet corn on Sunday, Aug. 4, from a row that his brother Ken harvests at Applewald, their farm in Litchfield. Tom Fair said the warm temperatures and mix of humidity “are just about perfect” for a bumper crop this season. The 10 acres they cultivate are picked each day and the produce is sold at the farm stand that is open seven days a week through Thanksgiving and is operated by Tom’s wife, Cynthia. Andy Molloy/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...

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...