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West View Elementary School prekindergarten student Brian Barlow constructs a building while other students in the class work with pre-K teaching assistant Tina Branam. A recently released study shows that the benefits of participating in the pre-K program decline over time.

West View Elementary School prekindergarten student Chaithri Kalapuhana looks through a piece of colored plastic.

University of Tennessee Medical Center Security Officer Jeremy Myers works to keep traffic moving on Cherokee Trail during the morning rush hour on Thursday. A dozen Cherokee Bluff condominium owners met with a developer Thursday night to express their worries about traffic flow if more housing is built on the trail.

Traffic on Cherokee Trail headed to Alcoa Highway on the left backs up while traffic headed to the University of Tennessee Medical Center employee parking lots backs up on the right.

Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Janice M. Holder speaks at the University of Tennessee College of Law. Chief Justice Holder was sworn in Tuesday.

Purely Clear natural skin-care products.

Halls residents Danny and Kelly Riggs, owners of the Health Shoppe in Halls, make and sell natural skin-care products called Purely Clear.

Justin Simmons, a senior from Memphis, leaves the University of Tennessee Financial Aid Office.

Students line up in the University of Tennessee Financial Aid Office at 1331 Circle Park days before the start of fall semester.

TVA Chief Financial Officer Kim Greene makes a presentation during the utility’s board of directors meeting Wednesday.

TVA President and CEO Tom Kilgore announces a 17 percent quarterly fuel cost adjustment at the agency’s board of directors meeting Wednesday at its Knoxville headquarters. The increase is in addition to a 3 percent rise in the utility’s base rate.

Second-grade teacher Doris Rayburn gives student Claudine Musavyimana, a refugee from Burundi, Africa, some encouragement recently at Mooreland Heights Elementary School. The school piloted a transition classroom for refugee children last year. Because of its success, officials are prepared to implement a systemwide program as more refugee students arrive in Knoxville.

Michael Miburo, left front, a third-grader at Mooreland Heights Elementary School, works on a phonics project, while Jamari Ndayizeye, center, gets some help from English as a second language teacher, Jamie Brightwell.

Mooreland Heights Elementary School second-grader Bosco Mvuyekure, left, works on a project with English as a second language teacher, Jamie Brightwell. In the background standing at right are second-grade teacher Doris Rayburn and teaching intern Kristy Dolan.

Lucas Richman, Music Director and Conductor, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra

Kelso Oil, one of the main local suppliers of home heating oil, is discontinuing residential sales. “It’s a dying market, really,” said Mike Foltz, Kelso’s chief operating officer.

Dimitri Smith, a Knox County Election Commission worker, checks over the list of voting precincts on Wednesday as he helps distribute voting machines and supplies.

Dave Twiggs, a Knox County Election Commission worker, rolls a load of voting supplies and a voting machine through the basement of the Knox County Courthouse on Wednesday in preparation for today’s election.

From left, Public Defender Mark Stephens, Jim David Adkisson and Assistant Public Defender John Halstead listen Wednesday during a preliminary hearing in Knox County General Sessions Court. Adkisson made his first court appearance in connection with the July 27 fatal shooting at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church.

Kelly Burke, left, Randy Tyree, the Democratic candidate for Knox County Sheriff, and Joan Berry appear at a press conference to announce the Berry family’s endorsement of Tyree.

Joan Berry, left, Randy Tyree and Kelly Burke, Berry’s son, leave a press conference Tuesday announcing the Berry family’s endorsement of Tyree for Knox County Sheriff.

Jennifer Hart, left, and Judy Allen, right, with The Animal Rescue and Foster Program were at the Greensboro, N.C., airport to meet pilot Jon Wehrenberg, center, and his planeload of dogs from the Young-Williams Animal Center in Knoxville.

Jennifer Hart, president of The Animal Rescue and Foster Program in Greensboro, N.C., carries Katie, left, and Ashley, two Knoxville shelter dogs that will be fostered by Hart’s group.

Katie rests in a pet carrier while being transported to Greensboro, N.C., by Jon Wehrenberg on Thursday, July 24. Wehrenberg volunteers his Cessna to deliver pets from the Young-Williams Animal Shelter in Knoxville to other agencies in the Southeast. Katie is an 11-month-old Terrier mix who was surrendered to Young-Williams because the owner was elderly and unable to care for her, according to Karen Lively, rescue coordinator for the shelter.

Brandon Tuelle assembles a street light in Fort Sanders. Renovations to the University of Tennessee’s Laurel Residence Hall on Laurel Avenue included several added security measures, such as emergency phones and security cameras.

Jack Renfro, left, and Brandon Tuelle, electricians with Progression Electric, assemble street lights Wednesday that are being installed on 16th Street. The lighting is part of the University of Tennessee’s move to give students in Fort Sanders a safer route to campus.

Brandon Tuelle, top left, works from a bucket truck Wednesday to assemble a street light on 16th Street. Jack Renfro sits at the base of the light pole. The University of Tennessee is adding security measures on the 16th Street Corridor to give students a safer route to campus.

Hardin Valley Academy Assistant Principal George Ashe checks textbooks ahead of the new school’s opening on Aug. 11.

Computers and books are still being unpacked and set up in the library of the new Hardin Valley Academy in West Knoxville. The school will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday.

Doorknobs and assorted stuff offered at the 2005 sale.

A Knoxville Fire Department investigator on Wednesday sifts through debris after a fire at Saint Andrews United Methodist Church. No one was injured.

Defense attorney Steve Sams, left, talks with his client, Dameion S. Nolan, at a hearing Monday in Knox County Criminal Court. Nolan pleaded guilty to charges including especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape and aggravated robbery.

Tom McCosh from the Lighthouse Christian Fellowship in Madisonville, Tn. places of bouquet of eight roses and two white balloons that represent the church members killed and injured in the Sunday shooting at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church.

Thirty-two-year-old chimpanzee Daisy and her new baby, George, enjoy time together on Friday at the Knoxville Zoo. The public is getting it first look at the newborn who is the first chimpanzee born at the Knoxville Zoo in 20 years.

Letitia Harper and Karen Lambert of the Knoxville FBI Field Office cut and serve cake at the Proclamation Day Friday morning. The Knoxville office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation held a Proclamation Day to mark the agency's 100th anniversary.

"The Counting of the Omer" by Arnold Schwarzbart.

Artist Arnold Schwarzbart with a piece of art that he has titled "Divine Doodles"

Meditation Cylinder by artist Arnold Schwarzbart.

George "Detroit" Thomas, center, talks with his attorneys, Steve Johnson, left, and Thomas W. Dillard, right, in court on Monday.

Wazoo Sports covers high school games and puts them on the Web. Here, account manager Terry Bowen talks with Central High School football coach Joel Helton at the PrepXtra media day at Three Ridges Golf Course in East Knox County.

Karns High School football players Derek Weaver and Josh Stidham and their coach, Robert Reeves, from left, are interviewed by Wazoo Sports account manager Terry Bowen as Rick Allen operates the camera at the PrepXtra media day at Three Ridges Golf Course in Knox County.

Sophomore Rachel Phillips works in a microbiology lab Wednesday at Pellissippi State Technical Community College. Pellissippi State, Roane State, Walter State and other Tennessee community colleges are seeking ways to make up for budget shortfalls this year.

Tomatoes ripen on the vine at Tennessee Homegrown Tomatoes in Grainger County in 2002.

A building on the east side of the 1200 block of Central that is being refurbished.

A 1941 Indian Scout motorcycle sits in the middle of the Time Warp Tea Room at 1209 Central street in the Happy Hollow area of North Knoxville.

Jeffrey Nash, co-developer of the North Central Village condo project sits on the kitchen counter in one of second floor units.

Landscaper Perry Hawley, left, talks with his client Jeffrey Nash, right, co-developer of the North Central Village Condo project. Hawley is discussing the final landscaping details with his client.

Charles Holloway stands on the corner of Central Street and North Broadway waiting for the bus Monday afternoon.

Jeffrey Nash, left, co-developer of the North Central Village Condo project talks with his landscaping contractor Perry Hawley, right, about the landscaping details in front of the building.

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