Today we're introducing a blog intended to serve as a resource and a forum for discussion on the upcoming Norwich town and school meeting.

The Norwich Meeting Blog is the idea of Stan Williams, a Norwich resident, former school board member and the board chairman of ValleyNet, a nonprofit dedicated to furthering the use and availability of the Internet in the area. Stan has provided the content for the blog, which consists of the articles voters will consider as well as links to relevant background information. He will also moderate the discussion that evolves on the site.

The Valley News is hosting the blog, using software we have been developing over the past year for two initiatives of our own: Jeff Good’s Dispatches blog, now in hibernation, and Valley Buzz, where you're reading this.

You can visit the blog by going to www.vnews.com/norwich. We hope it proves useful to Norwich residents, and the results we see will influence the next steps we take in developing our website.