Photos by Bob Fowler

  • BOB FOWLER/NEWS SENTINEL Yemi Makanjuola poses for a photo at Pratt Pavilion on the University of Tennessee campus.
  • Gov. Bill Haslam, left, talks with Anderson County Schools Director Larry Foster, right and Jody Goins, principal of Oak Ridge High School, on Wednesday in Oak Ridge.
  • Eric Enos, pictured June 26, 2011, in the attic of his energy-efficient home, stands next to the geothermal heating and cooling pump for the new home.
  • Eric Enos worked almost single-handedly on his energy efficient house which overlooks Oliver Springs for a year and is pictured June 26, 2011.
  • Jacob Wilkerson, a crew leader with a REACH work camp,on July 1, 2011, saws wood for a handicapped ramp at Brenda Turner's Oak Ridge home. Helping are teen volunteers Gabby Struve and Zack Polizzi.
  • Brenda Turner, in back, watches on July 1, 2011, as REACH work camp teens, from left: Jordan Coe, Laycee Sherbert, John Parris and Krystal Helm haul off construction debris during upgrades to her Oak Ridge home.
  • Supervisor Larry Mattingly, left, checks the plans for the new Cedar Hill Playground while Phil Thompson, second from left, Kyle Ruppe and Matt Reedy, right, move a piece into place.
  • Ethan Norris plays in Harriman’s Riverfront Park on Thursday on his 6th birthday. His mother says the kindergarten teacher who reportedly told Ethan’s classmates to call him a pig “shouldn’t be teaching.”
  • Bill Landry, former host of The Heartland Series and now a Roane State Community College instructor, on Feb. 3, 2011, points out part of the equipment in the new TV station to student David McCarthy.
  • ill Landry, fomer Heartland Series host and now a Roane State Community College professor, on Feb. 3, 2011, points toward the balcony in the history Princess Theater in downtown Harriman. In background, from left: Harriman Mayor Chris Mason, architect Frank Sparkman, Roane State student David McCarthy and volunteer Jim Duncan.
  • Richard Moore, left, and Tim Manning, center, are helped by Jerry Hill as they remove a filing cabinet from the administrative offices of Tennessee Meiji Gakuin, the former high school in Sweetwater, on Thursday
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  • Sheila Kidwell, left, registrar at Jefferson County High School, talks with new student Seth Self, right during registration on Thursday. Steva Parkey, back right, and her son Aaron Buckner, back left, prepare to submit Aaron’s registration.
  • Pedestrians take cover under their umbrellas during lunch hour on Gay Street in downtown Knoxville on Monday. Showers are in the forecast for the next few days and may help erase a rainfall deficit for the year.
  • Al Cecere, founder and president of the American Eagle Foundation, wrestles with Tiny, a mature bald eagle who was released back into the wild on Friday. Watching is Karen Wilbur, the foundation’s assistant operations manager.
  • Hoskins drug store co-owners and sisters Mollie Scarbrough, left, and Dudley Bostic show off one of the specialities of the store’s soda fountain, a banana split.
  • Workers with Harrison Construction put the finishing touches on the beginning of the 11-mile-long loop road in Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
  • A second floor hall is jammed for a Traffic Court session at Roane County Courthouse in Kingston on March 12. With the state fire marshal limiting the number of people allowed in courtrooms, officials are exploring ways to alleviate hallway crowding.
  • Regas Restaurant Chef Stephen Myers prepares one of the famed eatery’s noted dishes while General Manager Roy Frazier watches recently. Change is coming again for the restaurant, which is no longer under the management of Connor Concepts.
  • Dr. Tom Kim, the physician who has been donating his services to the Free Briceville Medical Clinic, comments on Wednesday after an offer to help the clinic stay open.
  • Taiwan natives Kate Cheng and Lucian Hsieh watch the snow Friday in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The couple on winter break from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign said they were enjoying the weather because it rarely snows in their homeland.
  • Mark Schotters, right, roads and fleets supervisor in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, checks out conditions on U.S. Highway 441 on Friday while motor vehicle operator Charles Curry looks on.
  • The dilapidated Alexander Inn suffers from peeling paint, a rotting wood frame and broken windows. Tennessee Preservation Trust considers it one of the state’s top 10 endangered properties.
  • Briceville students help University of Tennessee biologist Joyce Coombs, left, and TVA employee Charlie Saylor pluck minnows and fish.
  • Harriman Mayor Chris Mason discusses the future of the Princess Theater with Diane Tronsor, who operates the Spot Cafe near the historic building.
  • Extensive renovations to Neyland Stadium remain on schedule with Tennessee's season opener against Western Kentucky a little more than a month away, but the second phase of work won't begin until after the upcoming season.
  • Extensive renovations to Neyland Stadium remain on schedule with Tennessee's season opener against Western Kentucky a little more than a month away.
  • Extensive renovations to Neyland Stadium remain on schedule with Tennessee's season opener against Western Kentucky a little more than a month away.
  • Extensive renovations to Neyland Stadium remain on schedule with Tennessee's season opener against Western Kentucky a little more than a month away.
  • Extensive renovations to Neyland Stadium remain on schedule with Tennessee's season opener against Western Kentucky a little more than a month away.
  • Extensive renovations to Neyland Stadium remain on schedule with Tennessee's season opener against Western Kentucky a little more than a month away.
  • Extensive renovations to Neyland Stadium remain on schedule with Tennessee's season opener against Western Kentucky a little more than a month away.
  • Extensive renovations to Neyland Stadium remain on schedule with Tennessee's season opener against Western Kentucky a little more than a month away.
  • Extensive renovations to Neyland Stadium remain on schedule with Tennessee's season opener against Western Kentucky a little more than a month away.
  • Extensive renovations to Neyland Stadium remain on schedule with Tennessee's season opener against Western Kentucky a little more than a month away.
  • Extensive renovations to Neyland Stadium remain on schedule with Tennessee's season opener against Western Kentucky a little more than a month away.
  • Extensive renovations to Neyland Stadium remain on schedule with Tennessee's season opener against Western Kentucky a little more than a month away.
  • Extensive renovations to Neyland Stadium remain on schedule with Tennessee's season opener against Western Kentucky a little more than a month away.
  • Extensive renovations to Neyland Stadium remain on schedule with Tennessee's season opener against Western Kentucky a little more than a month away.
  • Pete A. Chairez, right, with Waste Connections Inc. of Tennessee, explains the new recycling incentive program at a launch announcement in Oak Ridge, while co-worker David Berney loads the bin's contents into a truck. Oak Ridge is one of several East Tennessee communities where residents are receiving retail discounts for the amount of waste they recycle through RecycleBank
  • A grieving Jesse Ray Jordan, who became acquainted with K-9 Ringo at Anderson County High, is comforted by his father, Spartacus Jordan, during Friday's memorial service for the police dog.
  • Sherri Prewitt, with Samuel Franklin Florist, places a wreath atop the cruiser where K-9 Ringo traveled with his handler, Anderson County Deputy Rick Coley.
  • Ringo, the Anderson County Sheriff's Department K-9, died of kidney failure Feb. 20.
  • Barry Thacker, president of Coal Creek Watershed Foundation, Inc., hands out a Christmas present to Briceville School student Ethan Bunch on Friday during the foundation's annual Scholars Day program at the school.
  • The Healing Force, from left, Joseph Anderson, his daughter, Sonji Gardner, his wife, Gail Anderson, and son, Karim, obscured, tell a story from Mali in both the original African language and English at the 2007 National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tenn.
  • Dr. Wolf Naegeli of UT participated in groundbreaking ceremonies for four zero- energy homes in Oak Ridge on Friday..
  • Major Ken Mynatt, administrator of the Roane County Jail, checks his cell phone while work on the new jail goes on behind him Tuesday in Kingston. The 172-bed facility is slated to open in spring 2009.
  • Construction is now ahead of schedule for the new 172-bed Roane County Jail, scheduled to open next spring in Kingston.
  • TVA officials Rick Carson, left, and Gil Francis visit the wind farm and discuss the Green Power Switch program atop Buffalo Mountain on Friday near Oliver Springs.

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