THE POLAR EXPRESS: Ethan Post, 3, of Sidney, watches a smoking locomotive go past him Friday afternoon outside the Maine State Museum in Augusta. The Great Falls Model Railroad Club of Auburn and Augusta’s Maine 3-Railers will display their trains in the Cultural Building atrium again from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today. Museum admission […]
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: Opening for Santa Claus
Members of Maine-Ly Harmony sing Christmas carols Thursday evening in the Johnson Hall Mini-Park in Gardiner. They were the opening act for Santa Claus, who arrived for the tree lighting at 6:30. Tonight from 5:30 to 9 :30 there will be a art walk in downtown Gardiner. Santa will be back on Water Street on Saturday, and there will be a parade at 11:30 a.m.
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SNAPSHOT: Blaine House decorated
Visitors look at the gingerbread house displayed in the Blaine House’s family dining room on Thursday afternoon in Augusta. Earlier in the week, about 42 members of the Kennebec Valley Garden Club set up decorations in the public areas. This year’s theme for the decorations was over the river and through the woods.
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SNAPSHOT: ‘Tis the season
Debra Bilodeau, left, and Jeannine Bouchard wrap lights around a railing on Saturday morning as they and other relatives help Roger Jean decorate his house on Mount Vernon Avenue in Augusta. Jean said that he’d decorated the first floor porch and yard beginning in the 1950s. Since 2004 it has became a group project as […]
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SNAPSHOT: Gasping gobblers
About 350 people ran in the Gasping Gobbler 5K Road Race to benefit Cony High School athletics in Augusta that started and finished at Cony High School. Recent Cony grad and University of Miami runner Luke Fontaine, was the first male finisher and Betsy Burke, of Boston, was the first female finisher. There were food […]
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SNAPSHOT: Doing the mashed potato
Ray Chavarie stirs mashed potatoes on Thursday morning at the Green Street United Methodist Church in Augusta. He and many other volunteers put on the church’s 32nd annual community Thanksgiving dinner. They served turkey, potatoes, peas, squash, stuffing, cheese and crackers and pies.
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SNAPSHOT: Prepping for a Feast
PREPPING FOR A FEAST: Phil McSweeney loads apple pies, for today’s Thanksgiving community dinner, into the oven Wednesday morning at St. Francis Parish Hall in Winthrop. The hall will be open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Winthrop Rotary will host a free Thanksgiving dinner from 12:30 to 1 p.m. There is no cost […]
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SNAPSHOT: Checking it twice
Karen Zeleniak zip ties a string of lights onto a bush Tuesday in Augusta. The blue and white snowflakes are just some of the thousands of lights that she and her husband Dr. Darryl Zeleniak strung up in front of his office at the corner of State and Green Streets across from the Gov. Hill Mansion. The display is synchronized to holiday songs and will start Friday. “We’re trying to turn ‘Black Friday’ into White Friday,” said Dr. Zeleniak.
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SNAPSHOT: Christmas is coming
Volunteer Katie Varney fills up a bag of cookies for a customer on Saturday during the St. Michael Christmas Fair in Augusta. There were several area groups holding Christmas or holiday fairs on the weekend before Thanksgiving.
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SNAPSHOT: Building champions
Waterville High School student Billy Durand watches a large computer screen as he runs the controls on an excavator simulator during the 12th annual Craft Championships sponsored by Associated Builders and Contractors on Friday at the Augusta Civic Center. About 1,000 students from 17 regional vocational technical centers across the state attended the event, which featured 25 demonstrations with master craftsmen and skills competitions. Winners of the regional event go to compete at the Associated Builders and Contractors national convention next spring.