Dredger returns to clear the inner harbour
The council's dredger begins three weeks of work on the silted inner basin on Monday.
The Harbour Ledger
The news of Saltmarsh, a small town by the water that does not exist: the harbour, the town, its sport and its arts, forty-eight stories deep and pulled twelve at a time.
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Market square to be resurfaced in October
The setts come up for six weeks; the Saturday market moves to the car park.
Rowing club wins the head of the river for the first time
The senior four beat the city clubs over the three-mile course by nine seconds.
Concert in the hall to mark the finished roof
The town band plays under a roof that no longer leaks, for the first time in a decade.
Lifeboat station opens its doors for the autumn
The crew will show the new inshore boat and the tractor that launches it.
Library opens on Sundays from November
Two volunteers and a part-time post make the Sunday opening possible.
Saturday league: the harbour side stays top
A draw at the school field keeps the gap at three points with four games left.
Autumn show at the gallery above the chandlery
Nineteen local painters, one room, four weeks.
Winter ferry timetable starts next week
Four crossings a day instead of six, and no evening sailing after the clocks change.
Third generation takes on the bakery
The ovens stay, the recipes stay, and the shop will open an hour later.
Sea swimmers mark the end of the warm water
The dawn group swam to the buoy and back for the last time before the wetsuits come out.
Film club announces its winter season
Twelve films on Thursday nights in the hall, from October to March.
Harbour
Boats, tides, the quay and the people who work it.
Town
The council, the high street, the market and the weather.
Market square to be resurfaced in October
The setts come up for six weeks; the Saturday market moves to the car park.
Library opens on Sundays from November
Two volunteers and a part-time post make the Sunday opening possible.
Third generation takes on the bakery
The ovens stay, the recipes stay, and the shop will open an hour later.
Council sets aside the road money for the hill
The potholes on the hill road get the whole of this year's surfacing budget.
Flood gates tested before the equinox tides
Both gates closed in under four minutes; the drill found one stiff hinge.
Allotment waiting list halved by the new field
Twenty-four new plots open on the glebe field behind the church.
Post office counter saved inside the newsagent's
The counter moves across the street but keeps its hours.
A wet June, a dry August: the summer in numbers
The school's weather station recorded the driest August since it began logging in 2009.
The town bus takes the long way round from September
The new route serves the estate and adds eight minutes to the loop.
Town hall clock keeps time again
A clockmaker from the city spent two days in the tower with the 1894 movement.
Burst main closes the shore road for a day
The repair held on the second attempt; the road reopened by evening.
Summer fête raises the last of the hall roof fund
Three thousand two hundred pounds on the day, and the roof can be ordered.
Sport
The rowing club, the Saturday league and the sea swimmers.
Arts
The hall, the gallery above the chandlery, the band.
A demonstration: Saltmarsh and its Ledger are invented. Built by plinth from EDN and Markdown; the front's further pages are real pages and are also pulled in place where scripts run, and a click from the front to a story and back swaps the page in place, every address still a real page.