Slipway closed for a fortnight of repairs
The public slip is shut while the concrete at the foot is relaid.
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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The choir comes home from a week of singing on the island
Five concerts in five churches, and a ferry crossing in a gale.
Town hall clock keeps time again
A clockmaker from the city spent two days in the tower with the 1894 movement.
Youth team through to the county cup final
A penalty shoot-out at the city ground sends the under-fourteens to the final in September.
Oyster beds reopen after the summer closure
The water quality tests came back clean for the third fortnight running.
The sea wall mural is finished after two summers
Forty metres of the harbour's history, painted by the school and the art group.
Burst main closes the shore road for a day
The repair held on the second attempt; the road reopened by evening.
Pub darts league returns after a two-year gap
Six pubs, one league, and a trophy found in a cupboard.
The tide tables are printed, and the mistake is on page nine
A misprint gives Thursday the twentieth two high waters an hour apart; a correction slip is at the office.
Theatre in the boatshed: a play about the 1953 flood
Written from the town's own records, performed where the water reached.
Summer fête raises the last of the hall roof fund
Three thousand two hundred pounds on the day, and the roof can be ordered.
Estuary kayak race draws paddlers from three counties
Eighty-one started from the bridge; seventy-nine finished at the mouth.
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.
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.