Last week I received an e-mail from Tim Wheaton, a School Committee member in Yarmouth, taking us to task for our coverage of the school consolidation issue. I didn’t agree with everything he said. But his main point – that our coverage had been superficial and wasn’t skeptical enough – was valid.

I got an e-mail this week from the mother of a student quoted in Saturday’s story about the Brunswick High School bomb threat. She was upset that our reporter didn’t call her for permission to quote her son, and wanted to know what our policy was in regards to printing the full name and town of residence of a minor child.

I sent her a private response, but thought the topic might be good for the blog.

This is a request for your story ideas. The topic this time is Thanksgiving.

Hard to believe, but the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is next Tuesday.

We’re considering how to mark the anniversary. In the past six years we’ve written stories about people who had some brush with the terrorists when they came to Maine; we’ve looked at how 9/11 has changed people’s lives; and we’ve traced the millions of dollars in homeland security grants that Maine received.

Last year, for the fifth anniversary, we talked to people who relocated to Maine from New York after 9/11 to start new lives or get a change of scenery. One of our graphic artists, Jeff Woodbury, wrote a first-person account about watching the destruction of the World Trade Center towers from the rooftop of his Brooklyn apartment.

So the question now is: What story should we do to mark the anniversary? We’re asking our reporting staff to see what they think, but I’d like to weigh those against ideas that you – our readers – may have. If you have one, leave a comment. Or if you don’t want everyone to see it, e-mail it to me at arussell@pressherald.com.