I tried to get into touch with neonfire a month or two back about just updating the sidebar with some other Cincy related communities but never heard back. I don't know that there is much modding that really needs done but it probably would be a good idea to have at least more than 1 person modding this and some active people nonetheless (neonfire's last post was like 6 months ago.)
Not sure how much work it is. I "mod" the Cincy Beer community (join us! - https://lemmy.world/c/cincinnatibeer ) but it really doesn't seem to take much. I'm not sure of the process but I believe if neonfire has left the world admins have a way to delegate new mods.
If you guys are good with it, I'll create a post in this community - https://lemmy.world/c/support which apparently is the formal way to request ownership of a community. Just the fact that people would be active and looking at this community would help if nothing else. Or rather- I guess you guys could create a post. Either way.