Itâs hard to write accurately and concisely about the last 12 months without using expletives. Letâs be honest. Between the pandemic, the pre-election hype, the post-election squabbling, the continuing and exacerbated economic doldrums, the business closings, the losses of members of our community â 2020 has been a handful. The challenge in looking back over the last year to find the most important stories is to find the stories that not only documented the first draft of history at the time, but that also captured the spirit of the Teche Area and the community as a whole. The first thought in compiling this list was to go by web traffic, since itâs a simple and quantifiable running of what is read online. Unfortunately, that would mean the entire list would be made of the crime stories from the year, so that method was rejected.