At the risk of getting a load of flak, i will give you my opinion.
I presume the site is owned and run by Dolly, she has given her time and effort, but also has a life of her own to run.
what might help is to appoint someone who lives there as a moderator, they could share the workload and provide updates for news events, local politics etc, of course the choice would be up to Dolly, just a though, what do you think?