ADDISON COUNTY — At the end of each year, the editors and reporters at the Addison Independent look back over the previous 12 months to determine which stories had the biggest impact on our community. Click on the following links to read their picks for 2018 — and click here to see the stories that got the most traffic on our website, plus a few staff picks.
1. Blue Wave extends to Addison County elections
2. After new gun laws, MUMS plot stuns community
3. County, state still struggles with plague of drug addiction
4. Mt. Abe bond fails for third time
5. School budgets pass as jobs and students are lost
6. Leaders leave in the Little City
7. Midd’s big dig begins, new parks debated
8. Natural gas flowed to the county, but not to Bristol
9. Pressure builds at dairy farms
10. Longtime county businesses close up shop