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Surprise Reunion from a Navy Dad, the Gift of a Kidney and an Inspiring Teacher: Patch’s 2012 Year in Review

What do you think were some of the biggest stories from Patch’s Ohio sites in 2012? Tell us in the comments.

 
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The story of Mary Gannon, a teacher at Lakewood High School, went viral after Lakewood Patch reported her story in September. Gannon was born without arms. But she never let that get in her way of following her dreams.
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This fall, a fight between an RTA driver and passenger culminated in an uppercut punch to the female passenger—and it was all caught on video. Patch readers and Twitter users had plenty to say about it. The driver was later fired, and both faced charges. <a href="http://patch.com/A-y8S7">http://patch.com/A-y8S7</a> Credit Screenshot via YouTube
Middle school students in Cuyahoga Falls staged a protest last spring to let school officials know they weren’t happy with how bullying incidents were being addressed. The principal told students that the school would begin holding weekly forums on bullying. <a href="http://patch.com/A-r8jg">http://patch.com/A-r8jg</a> Credit John Deike
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The story of Mary Gannon, a teacher at Lakewood High School, went viral after Lakewood Patch reported her story in September. Gannon was born without arms. But she never let that get in her way of following her dreams. Credit Colin McEwen http://o2.aolcdn.com/dims-shared/dims3/PATCH/resize/273x203/http://hss-prod.hss.aol.com/hss/storage/patch/8648b7639d49f19b7584f9bb82338923
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As the year ends, we're taking a look at some of the most-read local stories on Ohio’s Patch sites in 2012.

The stories above are the ones that readers read and responded to the most. They had long discussions in the comments and shared them on Facebook and Twitter. Many of the stories are of loss in our Patch communities, but others, like the video of the Navy dad's homecoming on Fairlawn-Bath Patch or the story of an employee who gave his boss a kidney on Cleveland Heights Patch, inspire hope. 

Click through the gallery above for a brief look at some of the most-read local Patch stories of 2012 or click on the headlines below for the full stories. 

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