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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Photos: 180 athletes compete at Special Olympics Maine meet in Farmingdale

by Joe Phelan

The Special Olympics Maine Kennebec Area Spring Games drew 180 track and field athletes Thursday to Hall-Dale Middle & High School in Farmingdale to compete and have fun. The annual regional track and field meet has been hosted by students in the Jobs For Maine’s Graduates program for more than 20 years, according Jarod Richmond, the school’s JMG specialist. This year, 90 volunteers from the school’s Jobs for Maine’s Graduates Program and the Key Club worked at the meet, which included 180 athletes ranging from grade school students to adults. All photos by staff photographer Joe Phelan.

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