Image conscious: art director Merissa Jones focuses on photos to show how we looked at business last year.

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Clockwise from above: What happened when "the hest little bank in America" got too big for its britches (June); Legal Elite winner Locke T. Clifford mixes criminal law with showmanship in Greensboro (January); art creates the artificial. at Carolina Eye Prosthetics Inc. in Burlington (April); local lawmen William Sands and James Williams uncovered a nationwide Ponzi scheme based in Ashe County (August); Lexington Mayor Newell Clark ponders the future of his former factory town (May).

Clockwise from left: CFO Joe Babcock shows how Epic Games Inc. employees...