List-making is an imperfect thing. Whenever someone endeavors to create a top-10 list, or some other such nonsense, things get left off the list, and certain other things get put on the list that have no business being there.

We all love to tear apart other people’s top ten lists (for example, I feel confident in my ability to immediately dismiss any top-records-of-all-time list that includes a Pink Floyd record), and now’s your chance to love or hate on our list of top local stories for 2008.

These stories, which can be voted on by you, our readers, at www.PhoenixvilleNews.com/news, were chosen at random with absolutely no thought put into the process. Joking. These were chosen over the course of two weeks by our staff, which started with a list of about 40 or so stories and narrowed them down to the ten you see here.

The creation of the final top-10 list was not an easy task. Several very worthy stories were left off the list (the Brandywine/PPG property, for example), and some stories that have a narrower impact on the community, but were important in showing some trend (the closing of the Vale Rio, for one), made their way on the list.

We will be rolling out print/online pieces focusing on each of these stories each day from Christmas to New Year’s Day, and we want your input in choosing which is the top story, so be sure to vote.

Of course, we also want to know whether you thought we got the list right, so email me at editor@PhoenixvilleNews.com, if you have suggestions for stories that should have made it in the top-10 countdown. Your suggestion may end up in our Sound Off feature. Any email seeking to defend the “greatness” of a Pink Floyd record will be summarily deleted.

Posted by
Nick Danna