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It’s late at night, and I have an idea. I don’t know about you, but that’s when I seem to get ideas. Then I either have to get out of bed and write the idea on a scrap of paper or, as I’m doing now, bang it out on the laptop.

But here’s the idea: Write for us. Not in the usual way, through letters to the editor or columns on the editorial page. But write small newsy items for us — for other readers — about your neighborhood.

Tell us, in no more than a few paragraphs or maybe a little longer, about something interesting in your part of Fairbanks or beyond. I’m not talking about the not-so-good stuff that ends up in our police report. What I’m talking about are things like neighborhood clean up efforts, who’s got the best flower gardens, which mom and dad has raised two Eagle Scouts. You get the idea. Neighborhoods are full of good news that doesn’t make it into the paper, and that’s a shame. We can’t be everywhere, but we can if we have you as a partner.

It’s just an idea, but if we get a steady supply of reader-submitted items from within Fairbanks and from the outlying communities, well, maybe we’ll end up with a “Neighborhoods” page written solely by the people who read the paper.

Again, it’s just an idea. But let’s test it right here. If you’ve got good news from your neighborhood, send it to me at rboyce@newsminer.com or just post it as a comment below.

As always, thanks for reading.