J.L. Mick, leading the El Hasa Shriners band, walks up to Academy Award-winning actress Rita Moreno and greets her as she watches the 2024 Ironton-Lawrence County Memorial Day Parade from a home on South Sixth Street. (Courtesy of Heath Harrison)

2023 Lawrence County Fair King Evan Clark uses a steer show stick to make Devin Fife the 2024 Lawrence County Fair King during the pageant in the large animal barn in Rome Township in July. (The Ironton Tribune | Mark Shaffer)

Lawrence County Veterans Services officer Tim Carpenter and Bill Neville, of South Point, stand outside the agency’s veterans vehicle in January, before Neville was given an honorary ride across the Oakley C. Collins Memorial Bridge. (The Ironton Tribune | Heath Harrison)

Harper Bazell, a South Point Elementary School student, the 1,000 Memories project she and her fellow fifth graders worked on as fifth graders completed their 1,000th day of their education in February. (The Ironton Tribune | Heath Harrison)

Magician Billy Hall, of El Hasa Shriner Hillbilly Clan 1 Outhouse 8, performs for students at Rock Hill Elementary School in May as a reward for their work on their annual penny drive. (The Ironton Tribune | Heath Harrison)

Sue Lunsford, Paul Goodson and Anna Beam work to clear out planters downtown for Ironton in Bloom in April. (The Ironton Tribune | Heath Harrison)

Cafeteria worker Marty Webb shows students how to use a mixer during a cooking lesson as part of the Gentlemen’s Academy at Burlington Elementary School in March. (The Ironton Tribune | Heath Harrison)

Gracie Osborne, Gabriella Osborne and Olivia Munion, of Scout Troop 5176, along with troop leader April Maynard, pull a wagon of cookies around downtown Ironton in February, as they conducted door to door sales at businesses. (The Ironton Tribune | heath Harrison)

A rodeo performer at the 2024 Lawrence County Fair in July. (Kayla Niece | For The Ironton Tribune)

Hagrid checks out a child’s Chinese fire dragon during Ironton Wizardfest in November. (The Ironton Tribune | Mark Shaffer)

100-year-old Charles Emerson Wiseman of Ironton was inducted into the Lawrence County Veterans Hall of Fame in November. (The Ironton Tribune | Mark Shaffer)