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A colored-pencil drawing of the three churches standing in a row along the cove, their steeples reflected in the calm harbour, now heads the town page.

Mahone Bay runs its own electric utility, so when the power goes out here it's the Town you call, not Nova Scotia Power — and there is no live outage map. This new board lets neighbours answer the question everyone asks first: is it just my house, or the whole area? Tap the part of town you're in — Main Street, Edgewater Street, Kinburn, Hawthorn Road or Maders Cove — to report that your power is out, and see where else people are reporting the same. Reports clear themselves after a few hours, so the board keeps up on its own. It always shows the Town's fault line (902-624-8327, after-hours 902-543-3251); it is neighbours checking in with each other, not a channel to the utility.

The new Which Bin Goes Out? tool replaces it — it shows the same what-goes-out legend and also works out which week is next, including the summer purple weeks and the two holiday moves, so keeping the older static list would just be two tools for the same question.

Which Bin Goes Out? reads the Town's 2026 collection calendar and shows the next collection day and exactly what to put out — a green, blue or summer purple week — plus the weeks ahead, the set-out rules, and the special collections (electronics, leaf and yard, the free curbside giveaway weekend, Christmas trees). The two 2026 holiday moves are already built in.

The highest predicted high tides in the weeks ahead, from the Canadian Hydrographic Service's Mahone Harbour readings, so you know which days to keep an eye on Main and Edgewater Streets. On a calm day the tide alone rarely reaches the street — it's a storm surge on top of a high tide that pushes water over, as during storm Lee in 2023 — so it pairs every date with Environment Canada's coastal-flooding page and the local emergency channels. A prediction, not a warning.

The local numbers worth keeping: emergencies, the Town's own power/water/sewer lines and after-hours line, health, and getting around without a car. Tap to call.

What goes out each Wednesday — recycling and paper on blue weeks, the green cart and garbage on green weeks — with the set-out rules and a link to the Town's dated 2026 calendar.

Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia is now live, starting with two everyday tools: the blue-week/green-week collection schedule and a who-to-call directory.