Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.  The Manchester Journal was honored twice in the New England Newspaper & Press Association's 2020 Better Newspaper Competition Awards including a first-place win for editorial writing by Greg Sukiennik. Editor Darren Marcy took third place for obituary writing for a feature about Barbara Riley following the local philanthropist's death last summer. The awards were given in the category for weekly newspapers with a circulation of more than 5,000 copies and came against the largest weekly newspapers in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. Sukiennik's submission consisted of three editorials, including: "Learning to live with uncertainty" and "Crisis proves the importance of community," both of which were about dealing with COVID-19; and "The wrong place and the wrong time," which was about former state Rep. Cynthia Browning's action in Montpelier requiring an in-person vote in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak.