John Texada walks through Market Square with his son Collin, who is 5 1/2 months old, during a brief snowfall in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee on Thursday, January 4, 2018. Texada took his son for a walk so he could experience his first snowfall.
Jy'Zayiah Davis, 9, of Knoxville, wears "I Voted" Tennessee stickers on his face while at Fair Garden Elementary School while his mom votes on Election Day in Knoxville. Voters were voting for Tennessee's next governor, U.S. senator, congressional representatives and dozens of state lawmakers.
A group of boys emerge from Lake Michigan during the annual Polar Bear Plunge at Bradford Beach in Milwaukee on January 1, 2014. Hundreds of people welcomed the new year by jumping into frigid 30 degree Lake Michigan during 20 degree outside temperatures.
A couple shares a kiss during their graduation ceremony at Farragut High School in Farragut, Tenn.
University of Tennessee students cross a pedestrian bridge above Cumberland Avenue as the sun sets over the campus in Knoxville, Tenn., on Tuesday, November 14, 2017.
Ethan Fulford dives into Lake Loudoun with his his one-year-old puppy, Loki, at Carl Cowan Park during a hot summer day in Knoxville.
Students dance at the Austin-East Magnet High School prom at The Standard in Knoxville on April 22, 2022. This photo was taken with a Hoya Star Six filter to create a star effect.
A baby goat stands atop Michele Krohn, of Norris, during a goat yoga class at the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tenn. The class is held Saturdays by Yoga865 instructor Emily Pace. Attendees have the chance to be surrounded by baby goats and even interact with them, but must sign up ahead of time on the museum's website.
Refracted within water droplets, pedestrians cross Clinch Ave. and Locust St. during an afternoon rainstorm in Knoxville on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019.
TWRA Sergeant Roy Smith, right, Knoxville Police officer Michael Cooper, and Clint Smith pull a small yearling black bear with catch pole from a tree after it was tranquilized at Morningside Park in Knoxville. The 100-pound yearling black bear was most likely displaced by its mother and wandered into the city in search for food, said a TWRA Sergeant Smith.
A waxing gibbous moon sets over the downtown Knoxville skyline leading up to the June 9 Strawberry Moon in Knoxville, Tennessee on Saturday, June 3, 2017. The Strawberry Moon, also referred to as a minimoon, is this year’s smallest full moon orbiting some 250,000 miles away from Earth.
Clarke Street School Principal Daryl D. Burns shows 4th and 5th graders how to play "booty bump," a game focused on building teamwork.
Truman Douglass and James Webster, both from Knoxville, pass by a flooded home next to the Sunoco on Ebenezer Road and Gleason Drive in Knoxville in February 2019.
Children play on playground equipment at Zaevion Dobson Memorial Park in Lonsdale Homes in Knoxville, Tenn. on Saturday, May 8, 2021.
Firefighters douse the flames with water from ladder trucks at a fire at the Loudon County Courthouse in Loudon, Tennessee on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. The building, which was built in the 1870's and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was consumed almost entirely by flames Tuesday evening.
Brian Woodruff, from Apex Window Cleaning, ropes down from cleaning the windows of the Sunsphere in Knoxville. Apex cleans the famous Knoxville landmark twice a year using nothing but water and dish soap, a job that typically takes two days.
Damaged homes are seen in the Holly Hills subdivision in Chattanooga, Tenn. on April 14, 2020. A EF-3 tornado tore through Hamilton County causing widespread damage and killing at least two people and sending at least 21 to hospitals.
Miss Greene County Brianna Mason is crowned Miss Tennessee in the final round of the Miss Tennessee Scholarship Competition at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville in June 2019. She is the first African-American to win in the competition’s history. This photo was taken with a Hoya Star Six Filter.
Firefighters spray a fire retardant foam onto a fire at Fort Loudon Waste & Recycling as seen in this aerial photograph taken from an airplane in Knoxville.
Gatherers sing worship songs during the monthly Gathering of Nations worship service at East Town Mall in Knoxville, Tennessee on Friday, February 9, 2018. Christians from a variety of nations meet once a month for a service where they pray, sing and worship in their respective native tongues.
Matt Prentice, of Knoxville, fly fishes for large mouth bass on the Clinch River in Clinton, Tennessee.
Mayika Evans does Carmen Pascual's hair for prom in the cosmetology class at Austin-East High School. Belk was providing hairstyling and prom dresses and suits for A-E students.
A couple enjoys a moment together on their paddle board at Mead's Quarry at Ijams Nature Center in Knoxville.
Three of the four fighter jets fly above a graveside service for Rosemary Mariner, the US Navy's first female fighter pilot, at New Loyston Cemetery in Maynardville, Tennessee on Saturday, February 2, 2019. The jets were flown by four female fighter pilots, and was the first all-female flyover by the Navy.
U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett fly fishes in the Little River with Ian and Charity Rutter, of R&R Fly Fishing, at Metcalf Bottoms Picnic Pavilion in the Great Smoky Mountains. Congressman Burchett was fly fishing in the Smokies to shed light on backlogged projects within the park as well as to support funding for all national parks across the country.
In her final days at downtown Knoxville condo, Smith returned her internet modem and paid parking tickets. When it comes time to leave, she said, “I don’t want anything following me.” She gave away artwork, furniture and other items accumulated over nearly three decades living downtown. “This is my home, and I love it,” she said before leaving the condo. “I helped do the floors, I helped paint. … I designed the whole thing on draft paper.”
Car enthusiasts walk at the 45th annual Street Rod Nationals South at Chilhowee Park in Knoxville, Tennessee on Saturday, May 4, 2019.
Jaxx Fox's gives a tour of her home in Knoxville in July 2021. The Fox's are first time home buyers and are working to update and fix up their house before moving in, all during Knoxville’s hottest real estate markets in recent memory.
Hooves & Feathers Farm Animal Humane Society Executive Director Stephanie Solomon with 19-year-old Bowie in group's stable in Halls, Tennessee. The nonprofit, which works with local law enforcement agencies to take in neglected farm animals, is running out of funding and donations and is closing.
Scott Murrin cleans the Riverview Tower in downtown Knoxville. Cleaning the 24-story tower takes around five days on average said Murrin, who has cleaned the building by himself over 50 times in his career.
Hot air balloons rise into the sky at the third annual Smoky Mountain Balloon Festival in Townsend, Tennessee.
John Stiles walks through his living space in his first trailer at Hoffnungsau Mennonite Church in rural Inman, Kansas, on Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Stiles has been traveling the US for 35 years after leaving Arkansas in 1978 with a wagon and two mules to live a sustainable lifestyle.
Knox County Schools worker Lonnie Johnson sanitizes a classroom with an electrostatic sprayer at Brickey-McCloud Elementary in Knoxville, Tenn. on Friday, March 13, 2020. Knox County Schools, after closing due to coronavirus concerns, is disinfecting all of its 93 schools using different cleaning methods such as traditional wiping-down surfaces to using modern electrostatic sprayers.