I did this ages ago for a website for my engineering class (now long gone). The focus of the website was a punbb instance, but it also had a front page with a w

I did this ages ago for a website for my engineering class (now long gone). The focus of the website was a punbb instance, but it also had a front page with a weather widget, an announcements blog, etc. The announcements were just a date-ordered list of first-posts from threads on one of the forums. It was a simple enough thing, and it was easy to click through to the actual forum thread for the "comments" on any given story.