Latest photos by Laura Herring

DHS senior Joey Johnson looks for an opening to shoot during the Wildcats' home game ... January 12, 2012	DHS junior Ryan Stallbaumer tries to reach the rebound before his St. James Academy opponent ... January 12, 2012	DHS junior Isaac Lueth scores a lay-up for the Wildcats during the second quarter of ... January 12, 2012
Fair weather has been working in favor of construction crews as they work on the ... December 29, 2011	Fair weather has been working in favor of construction crews as they work to put ... December 29, 2011	Fair weather has been working in favor of construction crews as they work on the ... December 29, 2011
Local photographer Jim Walker takes a photo of Mia Mendoza, 7, Jazmin Mendoza, 2, and ... December 12, 2011	Micaylah Miller, one, clings to mom Kelli Ellenberger before having her picture taken with Santa ... December 12, 2011	GBT Realty crews excavate soil in the first stages of construction on the new Dollar ... December 9, 2011
Reese Whitehair, 3, gets her face painted at the Holiday Bazaar at the De Soto ... December 5, 2011	Thirty-two vendor booths, double the number as last year, filled the gymnasium at the De ... December 5, 2011	Hayley Ritter, 9, and Kobe Davis, 8, prepare to flip the switch to light the ... December 5, 2011
The De Soto High School Madrigals choir performs before the mayor's Christmas tree lighting ceremony ... December 5, 2011	Santa Claus arrived at De Soto's Holiday Bazaar and tree lighting on a fire truck ... December 5, 2011	The frame for the new barn at Kill Creek Farm went up in less than ... December 5, 2011
Darrel Zimmerman hammers a wooden connector peg into a cross-section of the frame for the ... November 30, 2011	A crane lifts the first cross-section of the new barn frame at Kill Creek Farm ... November 30, 2011	Workers line-up steel support rods with pilot holes drilled in the base beams of a ... November 30, 2011
Workers secure the first cross-section of the frame for the new barn at Kill Creek ... November 30, 2011	Workers guide a support beam into place after the first cross-section of the barn frame ... November 30, 2011