Local journalism can help guide us through 2021

Like most people this year, Acorn readers stood divided on the twin issues of politics and pandemic. In a normal year, we’d say that often there is more that unites us as a community than divides us, but not in 2020. As the local economy struggled to reopen and opinions about health orders differed wildly, residents struggled to find common ground.

But they also have shown they’re ready to help one another in times of peril. Community members indeed share a “common unity.” Our year-in-review ...