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Premium Content Subscriber only This year has been a harder year than most and after witnessing bushfires, floods and a pandemic, you might be asking what went right in 2020? At The Northern Star and Tweed Daily News, we have dug through our story archives to bring you some of the most heart-warming stories we covered this year.   What do you do with an excess of mangoes? Sell them of course. This brother and sister duo teamed up to help the devestated Koala population through their sales.   Carter McDonald, 6, Maci McDonald, 5, of Lismore Heights are selling mangoes to help the ko...

Monycka Snowbird, left, argues against keeping the Cheyenne Mountain Indians mascot with a supporter, who declined to give her name, outside the Cheyenne Mountain School District 12 board work session in the fall of 2020. Snowbird and the other indigenous people who attended the protest felt the mascot is racists against their heritage. Supporters of the mascot said the Indians mascot was an honor and full of school tradition. About 50 people lined the street outside the school district’s administration building. (Gazette file photo) Gazette file Jerilee Bennett, The Gazette

I’ll never forget 2020. As a veteran photojournalist I’ve covered fires, hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters. You can see the dangers involved with them. COVID-19 was different. You couldn’t

That item was resolution of the stormwater litigation against the city. Three years ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, along with several other agencies, sued the city over violations of the Clean Water Act. The suit alleged the city had failed to require developers to install stormwater runoff controls. The agencies won a partial judgment in November 2018 in U.S. District Court. The city was facing hundreds of millions of dollars in fines, but the agencies agreed to negotiate a settlement. “I’m pleased to say that, absent some very unforeseen circumstances, the judge wi...

That item was resolution of the stormwater litigation against the city. Three years ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, along with several other agencies, sued the city over violations of the Clean Water Act. The suit alleged the city had failed to require developers to install stormwater runoff controls. The agencies won a partial judgment in November 2018 in U.S. District Court. The city was facing hundreds of millions of dollars in fines, but the agencies agreed to negotiate a settlement. “I’m pleased to say that, absent some very unforeseen circumstances, the judge wi...