The good news: Stories that inspire aren't hard to find in our pages

Have you heard the good news?

Dillyn Hamilton is cancer free after three years of treatment. Now the 5-year-old boy gets to run, laugh and play without becoming fatigued or his mother Suzy having to worry about him winding up in the hospital for days on end.

And just in time for Christmas.

But somewhere out there, there is a "ba-humbug" uttering so-and-so, complaining there isn't any "good" news in the paper anymore.

The countless features and profiles we've run in recent months on food and clothing drives for the poor and homeless, the Empty Stocking Fund, the Goldsboro Family Y and its Y's Men program, the Salvation Army and its Angel Tree -- not good enough.

How about the one on the new business opened up by the family of a 17-year-old killed a year ago by an alleged drunken driver -- a salon designed in a style commensurate with the late Johny Watson's dream for his own stolen future. Doesn't rank.

Or the one on the kids at Goldsboro High School putting together the news inside the school and sharing it with the community, or the troop of students that won its mock trial competition or the Goldsboro Police Department getting out in the community and helping build ramps on the homes of disabled citizens. Meh.

Where is the good news?

As Christmas fast approaches and we at the News-Argus continue to report on all the crime, politics and disaster recovery rigmarole that unfolds before us, maybe take a moment to reflect on all the neighbors you've seen grace our front pages for their charitable works, their hard fought recovery from an illness, their academic achievements or their triumphs in business.

If you don't like crime in this community, the police department is seeking local applicants.

If you don't like the current state of politics, the mid-terms are right around the corner.

And if you don't like these editorials, then hey, write a letter to the editor. We aren't bashful. We'll run it. (See Monday's edition.)

But please, don't stick your elbow in the ribs of our reporter working the tail end of a series of four to six consecutive 12-hour days during the intermission of your kid's Christmas recital which he or she is standing there at that very moment covering and say, 'Hey, how come there isn't any good news in the paper anymore?'"

Published in Editorials on December 19, 2017 10:35 PM