In Tuesday’s edition of the Williamsport Sun-Gazette, we shared the story of Connor Segraves, a 10-year-old performing music at assisted living facilities in our region.

Connor’s acts of kindness deserve praise, and we are happy for the opportunity share his story with our communities.

We know that, with our obligation to cover the news in Lycoming County and surrounding communities as comprehensively as possible, some members of our audience grow tired with our coverage of crimes and court proceedings — which we readily admit sometimes involves incidents that are horrific to think about — or our coverage of the decisions of elected officials throughout the government, municipal, school district, county, state and federal alike, which we acknowledge some in our audience may find boring.

But it remains vitally important that people in our communities have the ability to remain informed about how our criminal justice system and our councils, school boards and legislatures function.

Our commitment to that thoroughness does not diminish the opportunities to bring people’s stories of positive contributions to their neighbors and friends — whether it’s Connor Segraves or the work of the First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania or United Way of North Central Pennsylvania or the people who enjoy or whose hard work makes the Lycoming County Fair happen of children at an area camp learning self-defense or the man behind a documentary about baseball star Rap Dixon or Luke and Logan Engel’s perseverance in fitness competitions or a Pine Valley business celebrating 200 years — opportunities our writers and editors enjoy and opportunities they’ve taken in the last few weeks.

It instead clearly signals our belief — that news that focuses almost entirely on the uplifting or positive contributions of our neighbors, or news that focuses almost exclusively on sensationalized coverage of crimes or that focuses almost doggedly on questions and skepticism about a very selective list of school board members or police officers or judges is, at best, an incomplete version of the news.

We will remain committed to offering as complete of coverage of the region’s news — uplifting and dismaying, exciting and, perhaps, tedious — as we can.