A thought occurred to me when Modeltrainman had the idea of a Weekly Newsletter, what about a weekly roundup. There could be a section on the forum where a certain member can have a weekly round On some other forums I have seen, they have weekly round ups of all the news and information that had gone on during the week and it was really nice having a section that just ran down a basic look of the week.
I do not think this would cause people to not visit the forums, as it will simply give a rundown of news, and will not be extremely specific. I would be willing to do it if you like, or you can have one of the moderators do it...