We’re inviting you to check out a new way to follow news from your community. Go to STLtoday.com/neighborhoodnews and you’ll have the ability to search for news stories from you neighborhood or town.

There are more than 300 cities, towns, neighborhoods or places that make up the St. Louis region. Dividing the news up into those regions isn’t easy. Some place are well defined municipalities - Kirkwood, Belleville, St. Charles. Some are city neighborhoods - Soulard, Midtown or Tower Grove. Others are unicorporated places that have distinct communities - Oakville, Mehlville or Sappington.

We’re collecting all the STLtoday blogs and Post-Dispatch and Suburban Journals stories and we’re presenting them to you by community. But we’re doing more than just bringing you our stories. We’re also linking to content from other bloggers and news outlets in town that cover community news. That way, you can quickly see not only how STLtoday is covering your town, but you can see the feeds from other local writers as well. You can even add your blog to be included in the STLtoday feed.

We’re using technology provided by Outside.In for Publishers, which allows us to contextually locate stories in towns and neighborhoods. They’ve had a good track record with locating stories in urban areas block by block. Locating stories in the 300-plus areas that define St. Louis has been a bit of a challenge. (How do you tell O’Fallon, Mo. from O’Fallon, Ill. from O’Fallon Park, for example).

So check out your neighborhood news page now. Go there and use the pulldown menu to locate your town … from Affton to Wright City.

If you want to check out neighborhoods in the city of St. Louis, you can click on St. Louis and you’ll be given a pulldown of the neighborhoods.

Dive in. Once you’ve found your community, bookmark it! You can make it your home page and start every day by seeing what is going on in your neighborhood.