We sought your nominations, and you weighed in with some great options. Now we’re ready for readers to pick their top two on a very robust ballot.

Will it be pieces written by a fourth grader? Or will it be Kersten Rettig’s stories on The Charles, local chefs, Foxtrot, and a trip to Austin? Maybe it’s stories about a wedding during COVID, or a neighborhood photographer who captured families during the pandemic – on their porches. Maybe you were a fan of poignant stories about young men whose lives were cut short, one by a fateful encounter with police, and another by cancer? Or was it the drive of a high school football team that had both a tornado and a pandemic to grapple with?