The Datacenter

After the recent power issues, Bill Stephenson has been lobbying the council for a “proper [redacted] diesel [redacted x2] generator.” “It’s embarrassing. Leverite spends so much on IT infrastructure then either can’t or won’t do what it takes to make sure the lights stay on.” He wanted it to be known, for the record, that […]

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Unusual Job Opportunity

Do you know the surrounding hills and valleys like the back of your hand? Are you on “really good social terms” with our off-grid neighbors? Enjoy wildlife? If so, Mr Singh would like to talk with you. A rare contract position has opened up in his staff. Pay depends of experience, veteran and native preference […]

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Monday Blues

They’re holding a Poker Night over at the Mason’s place tonight. Buy-in is a sack full of non-perishable food or baby supplies, with each additional bag getting you a free drink on the house. It’s all in the name of a charity drive for Jack’s motorcycle club. Back in the 80’s they realized being bad […]

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Waffles

Well, it’s only been eight hours since Edna started her special on waffles, and I think It’s safe to say that  most folks are sick of them already. Waffles are a little like Fair food- you get a hankering for them, but after a couple of servings, you’re good till next year. That’s just editorial […]

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Community Bulletin – Phishing and Hot tubs

This is your Community Bulletin for the week of July 16th, 2016. Hello Sir or Madam, I am important political Delegate from tiny nation of Canada. I need your’re help in impotant diplomatic mater, and have heard you are very quite trusting worthy… Yep, we all get this. The phishing spam that uses a far-fetched […]

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Portables

Jim Swanson from Australia stumbled on our site (G’day Mate!), and was wondering about The Mayor’s office, saying “When I hear ‘Portable’, I think worksite s***house. Please tell me you ain’t got the bloke holed up in there huffing trough lollies. No wonder he spit the Dummy.”   Well Jim, I assure you, we treat […]

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Meeting With Lawyers

The Mayor’s office has been closed all day as a lawyer from the state has been meeting with Mayor Amundsen and a couple of unnamed state officials to discuss how the bid process is going, “irregularities” between the surveyor’s notes, and some “irregularities” in the handling of the bids. When asked for comment, a source […]

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Aaaaand…we’re back.

The past thirty six hours has been quite a hot mess, resulting in most of the town being without some combination of electricity, fuel, or internet since Sunday. We are still trying to make sense of the cascading failure that forced us all to go outside and barbecue all the meat in the freezer before […]

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Poke Anon

It appears that even our sleepy little hamlet is just as susceptible to the scourge of passing fashion as any other town. Out only a few days, it seems half the town is now obsessed with this Pokemon Go game. For those that aren’t familiar with it, Pokemon is a Japanese kids game 30-year-olds play […]

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