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One of the best attributes of this job is watching – game after game, season after season. No two games are alike. With each season comes a fair share of surprises. And every year is filled with memorable moments.

Just inside the Dispatch lobby on Monterey Street, a copy of every newspaper printed this year lies fanned in display atop a long shelf.

Here are the most-viewed stories - ranked in order of most web traffic on gilroydispatch.com - in 2011.

Read more about some of the Gilroyans who died in 2011 from their stories at left.

Eleven trash cans block the sidewalk in front of the home at 7300 Orchard Drive not too far from Sixth Street. Among stacked chairs on the front lawn, a few out-of-commission cars and plastic bins of junk - is a yard which neighbors would like to see cleaned up.

Six years ago, Troy Garcia’s brother, Dino Garcia, a former Gilroy Hawk and Gilroy High wrestler who carried his passion for the sport far past his 1986 graduation, died of complications from diabetes at the age of 36.

Not long ago, Hunter Collins and Jesse Delgado were two pieces to the most successful Gilroy High wrestling season to date. Four years later, the pair of GHS graduates, each with decorated careers as Mustangs – including two state titles and eight Central Coast Section championships between them – will cross paths on the collegiate stage Jan. 8.

Lilac-hued walls inside the seventh-floor break room stand out from the otherwise uniform hospital hallways at Kaiser Permanente in San Jose, where Fran Braverman's No. 38 locker is still stuffed with handwritten notes, medical supplies and a stethoscope with her name on it. The shiny plaque hanging nearby reads, "In memory of Fran Braverman, a caring nurse, our colleague, our friend."