There was more to 2020 than the pandemic. A lot more.
But the loss and anguish that followed COVID-19’s spread marked life on the First Coast like nothing else from the year.
There were bright points, to be sure, and old problems that grew worse with menacing insistence. There were changes that Jacksonville’s future self will have to decide were either good or bad.
All of those changes were news, but there was so much news it was easy to not catch it all, or to lose track in the tumult of the next day.
So with 2020 winding down to its final hours, here are bite-sized recaps — in no particular order —of some of the 20 top stories of the triumphs, terrors and embarrassments that made up the year in Northeast Florida.