my first question would be why are you doing it?
apparently,there's no money involved, so thats
not it...

let's say we give it a patriotic bent..tap into
the war effort...we're going to start this community email letter so we can return to life
as normal...plus provide a way to link all members
of our community together in the event of an emergency...

then, to publicize it, get a town crier dressed
up in american revolution garb go around town saying "if we don't email together, we shall all
hang together"....hmmm...

or, without the patriotic angle, try "stop communicating the old town crier way, read the
email letter"

btw, our local paper www.goerie.com has its own
website and i think it even has an ezine, but not
sure...

hope this helps....

> Hi all,

> I've been considering the idea of publishing
> a local community e-mail newsletter.
> Calendar of events, local human
> interest/feature stories submitted by
> readers, free non-business classifieds, PTA
> and school news, etc.

> Step one is to begin building a subscriber
> list, but there is a budget of zero for this
> project. I'm also not sure if the local
> newspapers would be interested in helping us
> promote this venture :-)

> If anyone has any ideas, crazy or otherwise,
> I'd be interested in hearing
> them....thanks!!

> Richie