Backfence.com

Backfence.com is a great resource to find out what's going on in your city or town. Unlike traditional news sites, this one is primarily written by community members rather than professional journalists. This allows audiences to be directly interactive about events and news in their areas instead of learning information from professionals who might not know the community that well. Backfence.com was created by Mark Potts, a former journalist from the Washington Post. Several cities in Virginia have their own backfence sites, check out http://www.backfence.com to see if your community is involved.