The end of 2020 couldnât get here fast enough for many. Itâs been the year of the toilet paper shortage, face masks, quarantines, job losses and political strife. It will be remembered as the Presidential election year when a pandemic altered life for people across the globe.
Coronavirus affected life in Madison County, too. And there were numerous COVID-19 stories on the front page of The Madison County Journal in 2020, but there was plenty of local news not related to the virus this year.
Here is a look back at front-page news in The Journal in 2020:
JANUARY
â¢Madison County commissioners voted 5-0 to include a referendum on the 2020 General Election ballot to allow voters to decide on whether to give senior citizens a break on their property tax bills.
time now for the good stuff. a bus driver in utah helps make a big difference in a student s life when isabella s mom died. the 11-year-old did not know how to style her own hair and that s when her bus driver tracy dean stepped in to help. seven years ago i found out i had breast cancer and that s one of the things that went through my head is who s going to take care of my little one, it s not that my husband couldn t do it. that s what mom s do. isabella is grateful for the help. it makes me feel like she s a parent to me and it makes me really excited. that s so beautiful. so we have had a morning of breaking news that continue with cnn newsroom with john berman after this quick break. see you tomorrow.
bill: a deadly standoff comes to an end in a houston suburb. police arresting a man for shooting 6 and killing four of his own children. chinese hackers breaking into the database of a government personnel office. at risk the files of all federal employees. that missing teen from washington state has been found, is safe and not harmed. tracy dean had wawrkt out of her home. she said if you are writing this i m either missing or dead. martha: police in france say they foiled a potentially massive terror plot to blow up