Chuck Durand drags a Christmas tree he just cut down towards the parking area at Seaman’s Christmas Tree Farm on Saturday morning in Litchfield. Owner Michael Seaman said that they’re selling balsam firs that he planted five to eight years ago. The farm is located 127 Pine Tree Road.
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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SNAPSHOT: Shadow boarding
Jesse Hamilton carries up another piece of trim board to at a construction site this week in Augusta. Hamilton, who runs Hamilton Custom Builders, said that the warm weather was making it easier to build the family room addition.
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SNAPSHOT: Santa’s helper
Kris McCray packs a customer’s wrapped presents into a shipping box on Tuesday afternoon at The Mailing Center in Augusta. It is a busy season for shipping companies and the Postal Service.
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STILL LIFE: Fruit loops + robotics = drama
Messalonskee Middle School students Katelyn Naslund, far right, and Sarah Cormier, second from right, and the rest of the Infinite Fruit Loops react as their team’s robot misses performing a task during the Maine First LEGO League Championship on Saturday at the Augusta Civic Center. About 500 students on 62 teams from across the state competed in the robotics contest.
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SNAPSHOT: It’s Robotic
IT’S ROBOTIC: Messalonskee Middle School students Katelyn Naslund, far right, and Sarah Cormier, second from right, and the rest of the Infinite Fruit Loops react as their team’s robot misses a task during the Maine First LEGO League Championship on Saturday at the Augusta Civic Center. About 500 students on 62 teams from across the […]
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SNAPSHOT: Sticky Engineering
STICKY ENGINEERING: Kindergartener Trysten Legassie and his mother, Samantha Cushing, build and decorate a train from graham crackers, frosting and candy during a Math Mania event Thursday at Laura E. Richards School in Gardiner. About 150 parents and kids attended the event, which featured a pizza dinner after math games and was held to help […]
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SNAPSHOT: Wrap it up
Lew Robichau, left, and Joe Grant, from Wingate Landscape, wrap garland around a light pole at Hallowell City Hall on Thursday afternoon. The city will hold Christmas in Old Hallowell events on Saturday, including a parade down Water Street at 5 p.m., followed by fireworks. A complete schedule of events is available at oldhallowellday.org.
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SNAPSHOT: Wrap it up
Lew Robichau, left, and Joe Grant, from Wingate Landscape, wrap garland around a light pole at Hallowell City Hall on Thursday afternoon. The city will hold Christmas in Old Hallowell events on Saturday, including a parade down Water Street at 5 p.m., followed by fireworks. A complete schedule of events is available at oldhallowellday.org.
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Show of hands
Music teacher Sue Pattershall conducts part of the grade school choir during rehearsal for the Augusta school music department’s A Capital Celebration concert on Tuesday afternoon at the Augusta Civic Center. The department’s seven music teachers and about 800 students, from third-graders through high school, put on the fifth biennial show on Tuesday night. Other […]
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SNAPSHOT: Not there anymore
Excavators demolish the old Kennebec Journal building on Saturday morning at the corner of Western Avenue and Senator Way in Augusta. Bangor Savings Bank will be an anchor tenant at 274 Western Ave., the former home of the Kennebec Journal. The MaineToday Media Inc. newspaper vacated the 50-year-old building last March and moved its front-office […]