A farewell letter to 2020
2020 has brought us chaos, sorrow, but also resilience. It s taught us to be stronger and come together. But we are ready to welcome 2021.
Kristin Clark Taylor
Farewell, 2020. Adieu. Goodbye. Lots of folks would say good riddance.
I’m not at all sorry to see you leave. In fact, I’m happy as all get-out to see your successor 2021 step up to the plate and take its rightful turn.
You haven’t played fair, 2020, and you know it. You’ve been the most horrendously cruel Backyard Bully on the playground except you didn’t just pinch an arm and pull a pigtail. You didn’t just kick up dust and cause a ruckus. No, you snuffed out lots of lives. You wreaked a hell of a lot of havoc. You played real mean and created much mayhem.
Gingerbread monolith delights San Francisco on Christmas Day
SAN FRANCISCO â In true pop-up art fashion, a nearly 7-foot-tall monolith made of gingerbread mysteriously appeared on a San Francisco hilltop on Christmas Day and collapsed the next day.
The three-sided tower, held together by icing and decorated with a few gumdrops, delighted the city on Friday when word spread about its existence.
During his morning run, Ananda Sharma told KQED-FM he climbed to Corona Heights Park to see the sunrise when he spotted what he thought was a big post. He said he smelled the scent of gingerbread before realizing what it was.
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Robert Cairns | The Daily StarChristopher Frommeyer, left, a SUNY Oneonta student from Long Island, talks on Sept. 3 with SUNY Chancellor Jim Malatras on the Oneonta campus, after Malatras announced no classes would be taught on campus for the remainder of the semester.
Greg Klein | The Daily StarA sign at the entrance to the hospital at Basset Medical Center in Cooperstown directs patients with COVID-19 symptoms to go to a drive-in testing area Tuesday, April 14.Â
Sarah Eames | The Daily StarDozens of local residents demonstrate outside the Franklin Town Court on Feb. 27 in anticipation of a hearing for Nasir Azmat, who was charged earlier that month with more than 40 counts of animal cruelty.
UpdatedWed, Dec 30, 2020 at 3:07 pm ET
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Find a sampling of the best pet and animal stories from Patch in 2020 below. (Shutterstock)
ACROSS AMERICA Some of the most remarkable stories from 2020 involve our beloved pets and animal friends.
Here is a sampling of the volume of pet and animal stories you ll find on Patch s more than 1,200 community news sites across America: Miracle Peninsula Chameleon Reunited With Owner: Meraxes, a 1½-year-old exotic lizard named after a Game of Thrones character, was reunited with his owner a day after news broke across the Bay Area that Peninsula Humane Society workers pulled him to safety from a power wire.
9. August 26th: The Milwaukee Bucks
walked off the court in protest of police brutality. It happened three days after police in Kenosha, Wisconsin shot Jacob Blake seven times as he attempted to enter a vehicle with three of his children. Jacob is Black, and he was unarmed.
10. August 30th: Lady Gaga s
VMA Chromatica
tracks over about 10 minutes with great choreography, costumes, and a special appearance from Ariana Grande for Rain on Me . Schitt s Creek star Daniel Levy
freaked out in a kilt as he gushes over his dad Eugene Levy s Emmy win.
12. September 25th: Nathan Apodaca, a.k.a. 420doggface208, went viral on TikTok with his 20-second