Gene - The prior Central region threads can be replied to, and all new posts are now under the smaller regions. There haven't been any posts in your region because no one has posted yet. Your is the first Oo.
There have been a couple new posts but they were in different regions and did not pertain to your area. Of course if you want to scan the activities in the other regions simply ping those threads too.
If you have an event you'd like to put up you now have your localized threads for it.
- M2