The Archives

The fourth installment is now online and covers the two Bull Runs.

The educational road trip continues, and the third installment covers Harpers Ferry and the exploits of John Brown.

The second installment covers Antietam and is now available. Please keep in mind that these installments are being broadcast out within a few hours of when the pictures themselves are being taken; if they seem a little less polished than our normal pages, that's why.

Well, Saugus.net is now over one year old and we decided to do something a little different. We're going on an educational road trip to an assortment of Civil War battle fields, and we'll be sending information back nightly so that everyone will be able to see what we do pretty close to when we do and hopefully learn something along with us. Saugus Historical Society Vice President Darren Brown will be providing commentary. The first installment covers Gettysburg and is online now.

There have been some updates to the SAVE site today.

There have been some updates to the Saugus Historical Society site today.

While weekend updates are normally pretty rare, since we've been working on infrastructure improvements this weekend anyway we figured we'd mention that there have been some minor updates to the SAVE site today.

We've finally gotten the search facilities settled down with all the new capabilities fully functional. A couple new features that may be of particular interest: the stars are now color coded based on the location of the page and PDF files are now indexed, too (free PDF readers for most platforms are available from the Adobe site).

There's been an update to the Industry page today. Also, while it may look like things have been quiet here lately, we've been in the process of doing numerous infrastructure improvements. More work will be done this weekend, and there may even be some weekend updates depending on how much we can get done.

We've posted some tips for using the search facilities. We're still actively working on improving the search facilities, so expect further changes in the near future.

It looks like we were a little quick to announce that the search facilities are fully functional again. They've still got a few quirks that we're working to fix. In addition to fixing these quirks, over the next couple of days we'll add in a help page for the search facilities and point out some of the new features.

Late Update: The local search facilities are functional again.

We're working on the search facilities right now; they won't be working properly for a little while.

Just a reminder that the yard sale page is active now with the good weather.

Saugus Town Meeting highlights include the passing of an article to fund the construction of a new Veterans Memorial School (40 - 2), an article to fund some highway construction, reconstruction, and improvements for Route One, and articles resulting in the combination of the Playground Commission and the Youth Commission into one entity.

We're still working on the search facility updates. Watch for noticeable changes over the next several days.

We'll be working on some updates to the search facilities this weekend.

The Computer Terms Page was updated today.

The Help for New Users Page has had some minor updates today.

The Annual Saugus Town Meeting started last night. It was the first time in around thirty years that Town Meeting was able to take place in the Town Hall. A handful of past Town Moderators were on-hand to celebrate the occurrence. Several articles were started and tabled; Article 3 covering supplementary appropriations for fiscal 1999 salaries, expense accounts, and surplus revenue (a.k.a. free cash) passed 35 - 8.

As usual, the Most Popular Pages Countdown has been retabulated. With the beginning of this month though comes the first anniversary of the daily updates themselves. Take a peek in the Archives if you'd like to see what the daily updates were like in the early days.