A family baking its way out of a financial crisis. Adorable identical triplets. A middle-school student who scaled Mount Kilimanjaro.

These are just a few of the remarkable people I have met or learned about during my first year as editor of Lewisville/Flower Mound neighborsgo.

Looking over the stack of issues that piles ever higher on my desk, I am amazed at how fortunate I am to be able to help share these wonderful stories — from a wonderful community.

Here are a few of the stories that were especially meaningful to me this year.

• Rising Above: Family beset by hardships bakes together to battle tough times

• Seeing Threes: Family celebrates identical triplets, and Three at 1: Town’s triplets still fun, lots of work (update)

• Top of the World:Flower Mound middle-schooler climbs Mount Kilimanjaro

• More Than a Game: Lady Farmers, Jags rivalry takes back seat for sake of sick player

• Restore & More: Church project a chance to revive building, nurture friendship

• Princess Meg: Four-year-old encourages others while battling leukemia

Nearly all of these started on our site, neighborsgo.com, whether in story form or as a bit of information that developed into something more.

Do you have a story to tell? Some special photographs to share? Post them on neighborsgo.com. I’d love to start compiling my list of favorite stories for my second anniversary.

For now, thanks for a great year and happy reading!

Ruth Haesemeyer loves exploring Lewisville, Flower Mound and Highland Village and can be reached at 972-436-5551, ext. 3007, rhaesemeyer@neighborsgo.com and neighborsgo.com/ruth.

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Press Conference

The Flower Mound Public Library’s Working with the Press Workshop went splendidly, and I had a great time talking about neighborsgo and mingling with community members.

One of the best parts was meeting regular contributors Janet Mitchell and Nancy Thorne in person. I also made some new friends whom I hope to see stories from soon.