Sun Editorial: School bells to ring soon

With schools preparing to open their doors next week, now is a good time to talk about the upcoming academic year.

At The Sun, we’re all about community news, which, of course, includes covering the local school districts. We’ll be at as many school board meetings as possible and do our best to stay on top of the “hard” news — taxes, budgets, elections and the like.

But we want to be able to bring our readers so much more. To do that, we need your help. When students achieve in the classroom, in the arts, in sports, etc., we want to hear about it, so that we can share that news with the entire community. We have an “On Campus” section of our paper to do just that — to recognize the hard-working students in a way that stands out from other sections of our paper.

Making the honor roll, winning a spelling bee, excelling in an extra-curricular activity, it’s all news to us.

Problem is, we don’t always hear about these accomplishments. That’s where you come in. If your child does something special, shoot us an email. Include a photo, if possible.

If you’re a teacher or principal, and you have a special event coming up or there is other news the town should know about, tell us about it. If possible, we’ll have a reporter present to cover the event or write a story and take photos. If not, we’ll figure out a way to get your news into the paper, one way or another.

Too often, the news is driven by events that anger or sadden people. Too often, the good work of young people is ignored or, at the least, certainly not celebrated the way it should be.

We want to change that. We want to let everyone in town know when there’s something positive going on, when young people go beyond the ordinary to help someone or have an outstanding accomplishment.

Call, email or write. Just let us know what’s happening in your school so we can share it.