This week we say a sad goodbye to what could well be our longest serving neighborhood columnist, Jefferson correspondent, Peggy Flagg.
Peggy has decided it is time to hang up her pen. While we respect her wishes, we would rather she kept writing for us as long as there is The Lincoln County News, probably no less so than Peggy would rather keep on doing it, but life doesn’t work like that.
We thank her for her years of service for us and more importantly for her community.
For as long as there been The Lincoln County News, our neighborhood columnists, like Peggy Flagg, have been important to us, not because they discussed the news of the day; but because they told you who was visiting, who was expecting; who was graduating, who was traveling, who was doing what: the real-world, real-time events that make up a community.
Selectmen and schools and taxes and emergencies may be the business of the day, but it is the people that make up a community and our community columnists have long reflected that.
We are always on the lookout for new neighborhood correspondents, but we must admit sadly, we are losing them faster than we can replace them. People with the bent to write about their communities now are more likely to do so on a blog than they are to write it down on a piece of paper and send it to a newspaper.
Strangely enough, nowadays people catch up on who is visiting whom and who is doing what via social media like Facebook more so than their local newspaper.
There may come a time when newspapers as we know them today won’t exist anymore, but news will always be here and there will always be a need to share.
Thank you, Peggy Flagg, for sharing your life and your community with us.
