We have long had it in the back of our minds to provide a place for members of the community to post community event announcements and a place for a broad range of classified style advertisements.  We have been discussing a number of different ways to do this, but most of them require more time to set up than we seem to have.  The simplest way, even if it ends up temporary until a more sophisticated method is developed, seems to be to just post an entry each month and let people post their own announcements and classifieds just as they would post a comment. It may be somewhat difficult to format it to appear the way it is intended, but this will at least get the concept started.  Any new post will end up in the “Recent Comments” box in the sidebar for people to see on the main page, at which time they can go to the appropriate entry to read the text.

The possibilities here are endless.  I will post the entries separately, following this one, with a brief description and a couple of posts that have already been requested.  Please make an effort to utilize the resource in order to help get it off the ground.

And please, if you have any suggestions on ways to make this work better, please leave a comment here.