The Saturday market is thriving. The stallholders are quietly worried anyway.
Crowds at the harbour-side market are the best they have been in years, but the traders behind the stalls describe rising costs and a shrinking pool of local produce.
Winter storms are arriving earlier. Here is how to read the harbour’s own warnings.
You do not need a forecast app to know when Marrow Bay is about to turn; the harbour has been signalling its moods for generations, if you know what to watch.
Havenroad primary faces a falling roll, and a hard conversation about class sizes
Fewer young families settling in the town centre means the primary school is planning for smaller intakes, with implications that reach beyond the classroom.
A new mural on the harbour wall turns the town’s own photographs into public art
The long grey face of the harbour wall now carries a painted collage drawn from images donated by residents, and the response has been unexpectedly emotional.
The ferry timetable was cut to save money. It may be costing the town more.
Trimming the winter ferry service looked like prudent housekeeping, but the knock-on effects on work, schooling and trade deserve a proper accounting.
Marrow Bay oyster beds reopen after a summer of closures, but the growers are wary
Water-quality tests have cleared the bay’s oyster beds for harvest, ending months of lost income, but growers say the underlying problem has not gone away.
Quay Street loses its hardware shop after forty years, and finds a climbing gym in its place
The closure of Havenroad’s last independent hardware store marks the end of an era, but the building will not sit empty for long.
Tide-gate repairs slip to spring, leaving Lower Quay exposed for another winter
The single flood barrier protecting Lower Quay will not be fixed before the storm season, and residents want to know who signed off on the delay.