The revive of Jan14-Feb14 posts/comments still being in the hands of some web engineers, and a bunch of announcements piling up, we’re going active again and may at a later date try to effect a fun merge. In other words, let’s play.

Hey folks. You’ve likely noticed that the site was down a few days. Sorry ’bout that. We moved the site to a new host and encountered some interesting technical details along the way. There’s still some kinks to work out, e.g., the site is presently current through Jan 14 2008– we hope to have it updated to last week later today.

We’ll be goofing with the backend of this site around Jan 15 +/-, which may or may not lead to temporary site wonkiness — we all get to find out together, yippee!

PPN can now beam up “alerts”, e.g., lost dog or similar messages. For example:

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FYI: The calendar in the left sidebar is a little different now… Instead of displaying a set Sunday-through-Saturday format all week long, it now displays a rolling week from 1 day back to 6 days ahead of whatever the current date is. (This change also applies to the calendar in the weekly-ish emails.) So now, no matter the day of the week, you can see what’s coming up, say, 5 days hence without having to leave the main page of the site. Handy. Thanks John M!

If you are moved to tears to have access to an online calendar of local goings-on, overjoyed to regularly see Ron Moring’s photos, tickled as you can be to have a space to pose questions for our local media to explore, overwhelmed at the prospect of being able to access city council minutes, BRAC reports, and other documents all in one place (and archived!), etc etc etc, then let Richmond know — show your support for Petersburg People’s News. (Oh, and while at it you may learn about some other really outstanding topical blogs out of the greater Richmond area, if you don’t already follow them over at RVABlogs.com.)