The very junior reporter who wrote that probably wasn't given time to write any more, let alone to research it. But if you can send them a letter or article they might well print it.

Probably helps if you can make it fit their style, give some local interest, and keep it short - ideally so they can just slot it in.

Pterry has noted that he saw his first dead body on his first day of work as a junior reporter, and had any tendency to writer's block burned out of him by deadlines - presumably all local papers are much the same.