I wish it was a lot more active, I know I have to give it time for users to start using this community. The subreddit is one of the few I still check on reddit to get local news and local stuff.
Contribute and it'll be more active. Every now and then I'll post an interesting article and comment on others. If everyone did, we could have a really active community.
I think there'd have to be some manual review or something for high value posts. If everything local gets posted it'll just start to feel like spam with no interaction.