Despite not much really happening here, this Facebook group has grown in size over the past 18 months. There was no mission and there was no cause, but that will change in the coming weeks and months. With more than 850 members now—and many more non-members who check in regularly—it’s clear people in New Glarus care about local news and knowing more about our community.

Today we are taking the first step toward something bigger at New Glarus 360. If this project takes hold, we will eventually transition to a new website linked to multiple social media platforms so we can connect to all demographics and peoples in our community, something that hasn’t happened since before social media and mobile telephones were born.

Going forward, New Glarus 360 will place greater emphasis on two things: