At the end of every year, the Addy Indy staff sits down in the newsroom and works out our picks for the top 10 stories of the year. Some choices are clear-cut, and other times it requires scanning back through a year's worth of front pages, trying to decide which stories had the largest effect on the county.
But web analytics give us a new capability: we can see exactly what stories you, our readers, flocked to in 2011.
So, without further ado, I give you the top 10 stories on the web this year: