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It’s been another impactful year in the city of Pleasanton, with a hotly contested local election, economic downturn, fight for social justice and a raging pandemic all dominating the lives of local readers.
In order to accurately review the turbulent and consequential year, the Pleasanton Weekly has released the top 25 most read online stories of 2020, revealing a reflection of the priorities and interests of readers in the community.
Here’s a look back at the Weekly’s top 25 most read online stories of 2020:
1. Evacuation warning issued for unincorporated south/east Tri-Valley
2. Specialty’s Café & Bakery, headquartered in Pleasanton, going out of business
3. Alameda County health officials confirm first local case of coronavirus
4. Pleasanton: Nordstrom store in Stoneridge Shopping Center permanently closing
5. Tri-Valley police prepare amid looting around Bay Area
6. Pleasanton residents turn out en masse for downtown reopening
8. Third coronavirus case confirmed in Alameda County
9. Bay Area shelter-in-place order being extended through May
10. Alameda County now reporting coronavirus data per city
11. Livermore schools assistant superintendent dies in Nevada after going missing
12. Pleasanton teen identified as victim in fatal stabbing
13. COVID-19 outbreak reported at Pleasanton Nursing and Rehab Center
14. Alameda County Public Health delays reopening timeline indefinitely
15. Jury convicts Pleasanton woman of murder for fatal DUI on Highway 84
16. One month later: Investigation continues into killing of Pleasanton teen Jackson Butler
17. Governor implements nightly curfew for non-essential activities in Alameda County
18. Alameda County eases restrictions for retail, other industries in latest health order
19. Tri-Valley swimmers seek to reform ‘toxic’ sports culture
20. Police: Four local juveniles facing murder charge in Butler slaying
23. Livermore police investigating suspicious death at hotel
24. Coronavirus: No new cases at all in county, but PUSD family under self-quarantine
25. Details emerge about fatal motorcycle crash on Vasco Road in Livermore
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Thousands attended a protest in Pleasanton on June 5 — in recognition of the amount of time George Floyd suffocated while Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck on Memorial Day. (Photo by Ryan J. Degan) -
A caravan protest drove through downtown Pleasanton on June 7 in protest against police brutality. (Photo by Mike Sedlak) -
Jackson Reese Butler died after being stabbed in the Hyatt House Pleasanton parking lot on April 15. (Contributed photo) -
Specialty’s Café & Bakery, which operated this restaurant at 5331 Hopyard Road and had its company headquarters just down the road on Hopyard, closed all of its restaurants in early May. (Photo by Ryan J. Degan) -
This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Image by Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM courtesy CDC. -
San Ramon resident Mike Biondi, an assistant superintendent in the Livermore school district, was found dead in Nevada after being reported missing. (Photo courtesy of LVJUSD) -
The Weekly’s March 13 Cover image highlights the cancellation of the 2020 St. Patrick’s Day celebration in Dublin, one of the first in-person events in the Tri-Valley called off due to COVID-19. (Photo by city of Dublin/Design by Paul Llewellyn) -
Hundreds attended a candlelight vigil in Dublin to honor the lives of Javier Ramirez, Mark Anthony Urista and Michael Angelo Urista — three Dublin teens who died in a car crash on Christmas Night 2019. (Photo by Ryan J. Degan) -
The Pleasanton Weekly celebrated its 20th anniversary in January 2020. Little did we know what the rest of the year would have in store for us… (Design by Doug Young) -
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The Weekly’s Aug. 28 Cover image offers a look inside the Calaveras Zone of the SCU Lightning Complex fires, which burned across multiple counties including Alameda County south from Sunol from Aug. 16 to Oct. 1. (Photo courtesy of ACFD/Editing design by Doug Young). -
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