Daily Leader file photo/Riders on the Wesson Baptist Kinderkare float enjoy the Wesson Christmas parade as much as everyone watching.

Daily Leader file photo/Shirley Estes inspects one of her dozens of camellia trees in her yard for suitable blooms to enter into the 55th annual Brookhaven Camellia Show.

Daily Leader file photo/Lincoln County Emergency Management Director Clifford Galey opens a box left at the C-Store on Brookway Boulevard. Law enforcement agencies suspected the box could possibly contain explosives.

Daily Leader file photo/Mourners from all over Lincoln County and beyond attended a candlelight vigil for fallen Brookhaven police officers James Kevin White and Cpl. Zach Moak.

Daily Leader file photo/Students and faculty held flags and saluted as the funeral procession for Cpl. Moak passed Enterprise Attendance Center, where both officers had once attended school.

Daily Leader file photo/Reed’s Metals worker T. J. Strong pulls crimped steel panels out of a roll former in the plant. An Illinois firm purchased the metal business on Oct. 31.

Daily Leader file photo/Students and staff at Mississippi School of the Arts kicked off the school’s 15th year on Aug. 15 with a balloon release.

Daily Leader file photo/Evie Arrington hangs on tightly to her father, Sgt. Michael Arrington of Ellisville, at the send-off ceremony of the Brookhaven National Guard Armory. Ninety-seven troops from 106th India Co. from the Brookhaven unit left to join about 40 troops who were already at Fort Bliss in Texas, before the 155th Mississippi National Guard leaves for the Middle East.

Daily Leader file photo/Daily Leader file photo/Reed’s Metals worker T. J. Strong pulls crimped steel panels out of a roll former in the plant. An Illinois firm purchased the metal business on Oct. 31. Below: Eric Knight with the Mississippi Street Rod Association, right, talks to spectators about his 1939 Chevrolet convertible at the Goin’ to Town car show in downtown Brookhaven.

Daily Leader file photo/Pictured are, from left, Sa’maya Dunn and A’aliyah Smith enjoying the splash pad at Bi-Centennial Park.