A look at 2008 with more than 100 top stories from the pages of The Citizen. Read the list after the jump.
Year: 2009
A year of major events, great elation and stunning sorrow
By Kirk Ross Staff Writer The happenings that drive the news cycle are typically either something big that changes the lives of a few people or something incremental that affects many. Major news — something big that happens to many — is rarer. The year 2008, however, is an exception. Going into it, we all…
Hometown New Year’s resolutions
Margot C. Lester Staff Writer New Year’s resolutions have been traced all the way back to ancient Rome, where citizens offered resolutions to honor the god Janus, for whom January is named. (By the by, Janus was the god of the gates, doorways, beginnings and endings). Here in the States, we probably have Ben Franklin…
Get outdoors on New Years’s Day
Get outdoors on New Year’s Day The annual Eno River Association’s New Year’s Day walk is a decades-old tradition. This year, hundreds of folks, young and old, will enjoy another well-organized walk along the river, welcoming the New Year and celebrating that long corridor of preserved wild lands.