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Despite 2016 getting off to a wet start, we trust all our readers and advertisers enjoyed happy and safe Christmas and New Year festivities.
It was a busy year for news in the Merimbula district – what year isn’t!
We witnessed tragedies on our roads and triumphs in the sporting arenas. We saw the very best in community spirit, and ever-present criticism of civic representatives.
There was even a possible murder.
Followers of the Merimbula News Weekly Facebook page may have spotted our link to the Top 10 most popular articles on our website for 2015, as measured by Google Analytics.
Given the aforementioned summary, is it only a journalist who wishes those big news items would make that list?
It seems you all love a good photo gallery – whether it’s the big “news” of the day or not!
Top of the pops was a Flashback Friday photo gallery of Lumen Christi formal photos from 2010-15.
This showcase of Year 12 fashions across the years drew 60,539 page hits alone!
Interestingly, number two on the most popular list was a photo gallery of Lumen’s 2015 Year 12 graduation, with 37,686 page views.
Not far behind was a gallery of social photos from the Sapphire Coast Turf Club Boxing Day races and a showcase of the Bega Valley’s most expensive property sales of the year.
Also included in the top 10 were the weddings of 2015 and the annual debutante ball held at the Merimbula RSL.
What to read into that?
It seems you all love your local school and its students, and checking out wedding and race day fashions.
From a reporter’s point of view it was also great to see stories like the goblin shark trawled from local waters, the blue shark in Merimbula Lake and the banning of jumping off Merimbula Wharf as top ticket “news” items included in the list.
There was also a fun court story of a man claiming in his defence he didn’t own a mobile phone, just before it began ringing in his pocket!
What was most pleasing about this article making the list is that it didn’t have any photos with it, meaning it attracted its more than 11,000 readers based solely on the strength of its interesting story.