The Best of Bay Weekly
Together, we read a lot of stories over the course of a year. Many of them give you a moment’s insight or delight. Others tell you just what you need to know. Some stay in your mind, even after all those words have come between you and them all that time ago. So I can still recount stories we ran four, 14 or 24 years ago.
Before I close the book on 2017 (yes, I really do have a large, heavy book labeled “2017 • Vol. XXV,” I like to reflect on what we’ve done in the 52 issues of our 25th volume.
Following the pattern of this Best of the Bay edition, I’m awarding them categorical bests.
Best Bay Weekly Cover of 2016
Get Ready for the Great American Eclipse: Aug. 17
Best Love Story
Love Letter from History, by Diana Dinsick: Feb. 9, www.bayweekly.com/node/36804
Best Heart Warmers ~ TIE
The Girl with Two Mothers: I grew up with Joan; finding Mary took 55 years, by Anne Sundermann: May 11, www.bayweekly.com/node/38043
The Christmas Box, by Jackie Graves: Dec. 21, www.bayweekly.com/node/41438
Best Story on Technology
Picking Up Tricks of the Trades: In Makerspaces workshops, you can make most anything, by Bob Melamud: Sept. 14, www.bayweekly.com/node/39989
Best Profiles
Driving Bay Weekly: Your Paper is Hand-Delivered Each Week by Tom, Rick, Bill, Bill, Jim and Kelly, by Peggy Traband: April 20, www.bayweekly.com/node/37734
Best Animal-Related Story
The Best Stories Are about Christmas … and Dogs, by Susan Nolan: Dec. 21, www.bayweekly.com/node/41439
Most Popular Subject of the Year
Squirrels Black, white, tan and gray, in response to Dennis Doyle’s Sporting Life column of Jan. 12: A Nearly Vanished Species: Black squirrels once were common in America before European migration: www.bayweekly.com/node/36519
Most Missed
Farewell to these Bay Weekly contributors: Sandra Lee Anderson, Audrey Scharmen, John ‘Bud’ Taylor, Bob Weckback, William Wohlfeld
Best thanks for bringing us good reading all year long:
Liz Barron, Diana Beechener, Mick Blackistone, Janice F. Booth, Alka Bromiley, Audrey Broomfield, Tracy Contrino, Sarah Cruz, Allen Delaney, Diana Dinsick, Debbie Brown Driscoll, Lucinda Dukes Edinberg, Jane Elkin, Clara Gouin, Jackie Graves, Tom Hall, Mark Hendricks, Rick Hogue, Jeff Holland, Karen Holmes, Prue Hoppin, Sarah Jablon, Marion A. Kay, Diana Knaus, Lisa Edler Knoll, Kathy Knotts, Karen Lambert, Lucie Lehmann, Jack Lewnes, David Linthicum, Richard Marshall, Bob Melamud, Kathleen Murphy, Susan Nolan, Sophia Openshaw, Jim Reiter, Barbara Sauers, Janice Lynch Schuster, Suzanne Shelden, Pam Shilling, Carol Shomette, Anne Sundermann, Jen Rigdon Teter, Peggy Traband and Marguerite Welch.
Sandra Olivetti Martin
Editor and publisher
email [email protected], www.sandraolivettimartin.com