Changelog

Lunenburg's waterfront mostly closes after October, the restaurants fill with tour buses in August, and parking is a contact sport. The new Community Picks board asks residents the three questions the town already argues about — what's actually open in winter, where you take visiting friends to eat, and where you really park downtown in summer. Anyone can read; adding a pick takes a free account.

Two staples, tuned to a town with unusual wrinkles: a municipally-owned electric utility with its own after-hours outage line, an ER that closes on short notice (the page explains the walk-in virtual urgent care that stays open, and the 24/7 fallback in Bridgewater), cash-only parking meters, a mandatory water-meter rollout, and the perennial Town-versus-District confusion. Every number was verified against a live official page this week.

Tide tables are the most-requested tool we'd never been able to build honestly — until now. Canada's Hydrographic Service publishes its official predictions through an open API, with a station in Lunenburg harbour itself. The new tool shows whether the tide is coming in or going out right now, today's highs and lows, and the week ahead, in metres and feet. These are astronomical predictions, not measurements — the page says so plainly and points to Environment Canada for storm conditions. This is the platform's first tide tool; the tide-times kind is ready for other Canadian coastal towns.

Lunenburg joins with four tools, built for the people who live there year-round: official harbour tide times, a who-to-call directory, answers to the town's most-asked questions (parking meters, the four-stream garbage sort, water meters, the ER), and a community picks board for the things only locals know — like what's actually open in winter. Every phone number was checked against an official page before shipping.

Ten docs on the town behind the postcard: the Blockhouse Hill housing fight, an electric grid at capacity, parking rules in flux under a new bylaw, an ER that logged roughly 870 hours of unscheduled closures in 2025, and a local news landscape that just lost the Barnacle. Plenty here for practical tools.