“Each new year, we have before us a brand new book containing 365 blank pages. Let us fill them with all the forgotten things from last year – the words we forgot to say, the love we forgot to show and the charity we forgot to offer.” Peggy Toney Horton

As the start of a new year dawns it can bring with it hope and hesitancy, faith and fear, all connected with the unknown. After such a perilous 2020 where each day seemed to bring new worries many want to run into 2021; unfortunately many of the same fears will carry into the new year. Each new year is like a blank slate where you can start anew. Here’s to 2021 where hope can flourish.
The Bowie News selected the top five news stories adding a few other notable honorable mentions for how they impacted their communities.
Coronavirus
Merriam Webster Dictionary selected pandemic as the Word of the Year based on the number of online searches. In its announcement, MWD officials stated a single word can sometimes define an era, so it seems fitting in this exceptionally difficult year, that word is pandemic.

Read the full story that lists the top news stories from 2020 in Montague County in your mid-week Bowie News.