Between now and New Year’s Eve, as in years past, ARLnow will count down to 2023 with the most-read articles this year.
Breaking news of crime and corporate relocations dominated the top 20, although reports of a sighting of tennis star Serena Williams and a low-flying helicopter also piqued the interest of readers.
Most of the time we save our most-read stories of the year countdown to the end of the year.
But it’s the summer news doldrums, we’re short-staffed, a planned story fell through, and, well, just like that week between Christmas and New Year’s we need to fill some space. Hey, it happens.
On the eve of New Year’s Eve, we’re finishing up our countdown to 2022 with this year’s five most-read stories.
It was a close call for ARLnow’s first and second place stories, which each exceeded 100,000 views and were within 1,000 views of each other. And for the first (and last?) time in ARLnow’s history, an opinion column rocketed into the top 5.
We’re continuing our countdown to 2022 with our most-read stories of 2021.
Up next, in the top 10, we have more coverage from the summer tornado and the storming of the U.S. Capitol, as well as an update on a now two-year-old murder in Ballston.
The countdown to 2022 with this year’s most-read ARLnow stories continues today.
Falling just outside of the top 10 were the freak tornado that tore through Arlington and a story that stirred up patriotic feelings in ARLnow’s commentariat and which received national attention: Marines rescuing a stranded car during torrential downpour.
It’s here: with the clock ticking down to 2021, we present the top 5 most-read ARLnow stories of 2021.
Thank you for supporting local news in 2020. We look forward to expanding our team and providing even more local coverage next year.
The countdown to 2021 with ARLnow’s top stories of 2020 continues today with Nos. 6-10.
The following were among our most-read articles of the year. Nos. 1-5 will be revealed tomorrow.
The countdown to 2021 with this year’s most-read ARLnow stories continues today. Falling just outside the top 10 were stories about a banner, a burglary, a bear, and an early coronavirus case in Arlington.
15. Yorktown Principal Apologizes for Banner Seen as Racist (May 21 | 37,228 views)
ARLnow is continuing our countdown to New Year’s Eve, with the most-read Arlington articles of 2020.
Readers used ARLnow’s coverage to find marches in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, restaurants offering takeout and delivery during the shutdown, and other local news and information. Arlington also remembered one of its own, Colton Poythress, who died in August.
The countdown of the top 30 most-read Arlington articles of 2020 continues today, with numbers 21-25.
The pandemic dominated the headlines this year, but there were big stories on other topics as well.
(Updated at 1:55 p.m.) Between now and New Year’s Eve, as in years past, ARLnow will be counting down the most-read articles on the site in 2020.
Needless to say it was a year to both remember and forget, with the pandemic dominating local headlines. But there are plenty of other local news stories that will appear in our countdown, which serve as a reminder that life went on, despite the deadly virus that largely defined the year.
It’s finally time: we’re just hours away from the ball dropping in Times Square, and we can now reveal the top 5 most-read Arlington stories of 2019.
There’s a theme for this year’s top articles: they’re all breaking news stories.
