Several unrelated items about communicating with citizens and using various means, including current technology, to do so:
Christiansburg's Fall Clean Up is scheduled October 4th through 18th and information about what can/cannot be discarded may be found at the homepage this year, and in several advertisements placed in local newspapers.
October 5 through 11 is National Fire Prevention week and the Christiansburg Fire Department will have a parade of its equipment down Main Street beginning at 6 pm on Tuesday, October 7th, per information found on their homepage and a banner stretched across the road.
A four hour Fall Festival, co-sponsored by the Christiansburg Police Department, was held September 27th at the NRV Mall. This information was not published on either the town's or CPD homepage, so you may have missed the hayrides, bike rodeo and other freebies. And don't send emails to the Chief as that link still lists an assistant who has left the job.
Speaking of what can/cannot be discarded, an editorial in the Roanoke Times Current brings up valid points about elected officials either using town email accounts or the requirement for individual's to protect and save all related correspondence sent through personal accounts such as yahoo, aol or gmail.
Given Christiansburg's recent FOIA "training" issues and the town's upgraded web site due to be premiered very soon, administrators working on that project were clear official email accounts were needed. Whether council members choose to use the yourname@christiansburg accounts or not, they should indeed be held accountable for following the letter and intent of FOIA as regards all correspondence.
If a request for correspondence was made and something was omitted, it would be unfortunate to have a recipient -- or someone else who had such information forwarded to them -- provide what an elected official says does not exist. There is no reason to be distracted from the real work of managing the town because a petition for mandamus or injunction is filed, or for council members and appointees to risk exposing themselves to penalties relative to such violations.