This week we introduce something new for you: The Reporter's Top 5. We want to tell you personally about the stories that mattered to us and this community in a year that stretched us to new lengths. In looking back upon our body of work I hope you'll agree that this community is as resilient as I believe this newspaper to be, and local journalism is too important to do without. âAmy Trent As COVID-19 gripped the many layers of everyday life for most of this year, reporting has been at times an enormously challenging task. It reminds me of a great line from the film "Mank" that recently released: "Are you ready to hunt the great white whale?"Â