I’ll be honest – after the seemingly unending bizarreness of 2020, I strongly considered giving our annual Year in Review edition a miss. Was this a year that people wanted to look back on? Did I want to look back?

Ultimately, I decided we should go forward. After all, even as we continue to deal with the ongoing issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, life has gone on. It has gone on differently, rife with challenges both large and small, but it has gone on.

We here at the Edge encountered our own challenges, including shutting down our print edition for over three months, from mid-March to the end of June. However, we kept producing new content for our website and generally refused to go anywhere. We resumed printing in July, spending a couple of months as a bi-weekly publication before finally resuming our usual weekly run this fall.

We also bore witness to just how hard it was for our longtime partners, the many local businesses who have been loyal advertisers, the arts and cultural organizations who have been in many ways our raison d’etre and – of course – our readers, without whom we wouldn’t be here. This year, more than any other, we want to express our gratitude for the support we’ve received from so many.

And so, here are a few of our favorite stories from the past year.