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.
Sport
The rowing club, the Saturday league and the sea swimmers.
Arts
The hall, the gallery above the chandlery, the band.
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.
Autumn show at the gallery above the chandlery
Nineteen local painters, one room, four weeks.
Film club announces its winter season
Twelve films on Thursday nights in the hall, from October to March.
Poets read in the library for the harvest
Four local poets, one visiting, and an open floor for the brave.
Town band appoints a new conductor
The new conductor comes from the city's youth orchestra and starts in October.
Shanty festival fills the quay for a weekend
Nine crews, two stages, and the quay closed to traffic for the first time.
Pottery course returns to the old sail loft
Six evenings, a kiln lent by the school, and clay from the estuary bank.
An exhibition of the same view, three hundred and sixty-five times
A photographer stood on the harbour wall every day for a year at high water.
The museum's oyster smack sails again
Three years of work on a boat built in 1889.
The choir comes home from a week of singing on the island
Five concerts in five churches, and a ferry crossing in a gale.
The sea wall mural is finished after two summers
Forty metres of the harbour's history, painted by the school and the art group.
Theatre in the boatshed: a play about the 1953 flood
Written from the town's own records, performed where the water reached.
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.