A look back at the most-read stories on our website last year.
New year lists are irresistible, right? Our look back at the 24 most-read stories on our website in 2024 found a mix of the kinds of stories we love to do: dining, of course, like our January story on the MexiTacos Jireh food truck in Westover, and shopping, including our July story on Thompson Treasures discount store in Star City. Events and destinations—the annual July New Deal Festival and harvest-season day trips to family farms—were popular, as was our coverage of the school district’s new phone-free policy.
Here are the stories you clicked to the very top in 2024.
No. 6
Readers showed enthusiasm for the monthly summer and fall Moonlight Markets, one of the great things about life in Morgantown, by clicking through to our May 2024 story The 2024 Moonlight Market Season Begins.
No. 5
The vision for Deckers Creek laid out in our October 2024 story, originally published in the Fall print edition, Deckers 3.0: Cleaner and More Fun, generated a lot of interest.
Nos. 3 and 4
Our contention that Morgantown had long wanted a drink with its Pizza Al’s pizza must have been true: near the top on our website were two web stories on the new Pizza Al’s & Bar, Morgantown’s Wish is Granted and Some Love for Us Townies.
No. 2
Morgantown celebrated the shared 100th birthdays of hometown funny man Don Knotts and the restored Metropolitan Theater in July 2024 with a four-day festival of films and events and the release of a Don Knotts walking and driving tour—details of which were much-accessed at our Don Knotts Festival and walking tour home page. Our feature story Celebrating a Century of Entertainment with Don Knotts was also a top draw.
No. 1
Morgantown likes its watering holes! The longtime neighborhood bar is one of Morgantown’s favorite third places, propelling our story Cheers to Morgantown’s Longtime Neighborhood Bars to the top spot in 2024.
There are always a couple of surprises. Our tongue-in-cheek 2020 story on the “COVID tree”—the kousa dogwood that appears in yards around town and puts out berries that look like the COVID virion bounced back to No. 18 in 2024.
And appearing among most-read stories year after year—No. 7 in 2024—is a story we did in 2019 about the fourth-generation family-run Street’s superstore in Masontown. Day trip, anyone?
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