After a wet spring that kept the gravel lot soft well into May, the weekend market is back at the old boat landing. Fourteen tables this week, up from nine last year — mostly the usual: early greens, rhubarb, two beekeepers, and the Petersen girls selling cut peonies out of a wheelbarrow. Setup is 8 a.m., teardown by one.
The board voted 4–1 to close Monday mornings and instead keep the reading room open until eight on Thursdays. The stated reason was foot traffic: the Monday count has run under a dozen for most of the winter, while the Thursday book circle has been turning people away.
The gauge off the county dock read 3.9 feet this morning, roughly a foot below the ten-year average for the date. Nothing alarming yet, but the shallow end past the reeds is walkable again, and the canoe rack has been pulled back twice already.