As much as we love words, it’s the photographs–and our incredibly talented team of freelance photographers–that really make our stories sing. Here is just a handful of the images that were captured this year.

A revived Charlottesville Players Guild continued its ambitious effort to stage all 10 plays of August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle, and the troupe performed Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at the Jefferson School in April. Photo: Sanjay Suchak

Venerable soda fountain Timberlake’s made our list of spots around town to find a cozy wood fire. Photo: Stephen Barling

Zyahna Bryant, who prompted the initial debate around removing the Robert E. Lee statue, made headlines again this fall, as a source in the blistering ProPublica story on racial disparities in Charlottesville City Schools. Photo: Eze Amos

The Charlottesville Cardinals, a wheelchair basketball team founded in 1980, finished the 2017-18 season ranked 13th nationally. Photo: Tristan Williams

Local activists celebrated after James Fields was found guilty on all counts in the August 12, 2017, car attack. Photo: Eze Amos