Photos of the Year II

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Liana Krissoff, a Cook Book author, holds daughter Thalia Krissoff, 3, as they take a break from canning okra Wednesday, July 1, 2009, at their home in Carlton. Krissoff is working on a new book all about canning foods.


Lightning electrifies the sky behind City Hall as a line of thunderstorms moves through Athens early Thursday morning. Over 4,000 people lost power in Northeast Georgia during the storm.


Delaney June, 3, left, gets distracted during the dress rehearsal for the "Trip Around the World" Freedom of Movement Dance Academy recital Wednesday at the Oconee County Civic Center. June's class represents the North Pole. Performances will be held Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m.


Shanon Hays, the TRR Cobb House Program Coordinator, primps a dress worn by Mary Ann (Lamar) Cobb, the wife of Howell Cobb, at a state dinner in 1860 during a tour of the the 19th century Federal-style mansion Wednesday afternoon in Athens.


Blake Hataway slides down a rock into the Broad River Friday, June 19, 2009, in Danielsville.


Clifton Ward, 95, still helps tend cattle for his son, Albert Ward, on his son's cattle farm in Commerce.


Dakota Hamlin, 7, right, and friend Arlo Fowells, 4, hold their candles in the final moments of the Inauguration Candlelight prayer service held on the steps of City Hall Tuesday evening in downtown Athens.


Graduation Coach/Counselor Cedric Allen talks with 11th grader Teaspoon Jones while walking down the hall in Oglethorpe County High School in Lexington. Local schools systems might have to decide whether a Graduation Coach is a position worth saving under Gov. Sonny Perdue's proposed budget for K-12 education.


Nancy Miller coaxes her Alpaca Noelle to her for a kiss Wednesday Sept. 16, 2009, at her farm Crooked Pine Hollow Alpacas in Winterville.


Larry Clack of Athens, center, and sister Carol Griffin, left, boo a speaker who supports health care reform during a protest Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009, at the Oconee Veterans Park in Watkinsville.


Army Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Wilson addresses D.E.P. soldiers during a training session Saturday at the Army Reserve Center near Athens Ben Epps Aiport.


Willie Jordan, left, and son Michael Jordan watch down the street where police work at a neighbors' mobile home where a triple homicide took place Wednesday night in Hallmark Mobile Home Park in Athens.


Athens-Clarke Police Sergeant Mike Young, left, along with Officer Jeremy Spivey and Officer Drew Cook take calls about a storm after taking in a better view in the Classic Center parking deck Friday night in downtown Athens.


Barrow County and Winder firefighters train to properly extinguish propane fires and learn the signs that a tank might explode as a part of a "Pressurized Container Class" given by staff from the Georgia Fire Academy Thursday night outside of the Winder Fire Stadion No. 2 in Winder.


S.J. Ursey of band "Creepy" hula-hoops with a hoop made by Allison Workman before the annual Flagpole Music Awards Thursday June 25, 2009, at the Morton Theater in downtown Athens.


Fireworks light up the sky over Lake Russell during the 13th Annual Elbert County Fireworks Show Friday night at Richard B. Russell State Park in Elberton.


Lee Green, a carpenter for 36 years, uses a stick to push a piece of wood across a table saw Thursday in his shop at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore on Barber Street. Green's job was created for him by the Senior Community Service Employment Program at Athens Council on Aging. Green, 56, was unable to work after a stroke in 2006.


Jeremy Miller as "T.R.R. Cobb" ,right, and Danielle Miller as "Mary Anne Cobb" the wife of T.R.R.'s brother Howell Cobb rehearses vignettes that will be performed by the Rose of Athens performers during holiday tours of historic houses Thursday Nov. 19, 2009, at the T.R.R. Cobb House in downtown Athens.


Megan Lamb, center, leans on friend Alex Ramirez during the Peace Place's 9th Annual Candlelight Vigil to remember those who have died as a result of domestic violence in the last year in Georgia Tuesday Oct. 13, 2009, outside of the Barrow County Courthouse in Winder.


Lance Witt, 6, runs circles around a trampoline outside of his home Wednesday Dec. 3, 2009, in Winder. The first-grader was born with a congenital heart defect and had a heart transplant this summer that has given him a lot more energy.