Neighborhood With All Are Welcome Signs Votes 9 to 0 Against Letting Anyone Else Live There
Residents cite character, parking, shadows, and the principle that welcome belongs on a sign.
By Karen Plimpton-Vance, Local
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City Adds Bike Lane, Removes Bike Lane, Adds Public Meeting About the Bike Lane
The paint cost more than the meeting, and the meeting cost more than the lane would have saved.
By A Raccoon, City Desk
HOA President Drunk With Power After Measuring Lawn
By JerkCircle Staff
Man at Self-Checkout Named Unpaid Employee of the Month
By JerkCircle Staff
Local Gym Now an Echo Chamber, Literally
By JerkCircle Staff
Area Dad Drives 40 Minutes to Save $4 on Gas, Declares Fiscal Victory
By JerkCircle Staff
New Luxury Apartments Named After the Working-Class Neighborhood They Replaced
By JerkCircle Staff
City Council Spends Four Hours Debating a Crosswalk, Twelve Seconds on the Budget
By JerkCircle Staff
Town Erects Statue of Founder, Quietly Hopes No One Reads About the Founder
By JerkCircle Staff
Beloved Local Bookstore Replaced by Store That Sells Pictures of Beloved Local Bookstores
By JerkCircle Staff
Neighbor Reports Suspicious Activity, Means a Different Car Parked Slightly Near His House
By JerkCircle Staff
Pop-Up Shop Pops Up, Sells Nothing, Pops Away, Was an Experience
By JerkCircle Staff
Local Restaurant Adds a Living Wage Surcharge So It Does Not Have to Pay One
By JerkCircle Staff
New Parking App Requires You to Park, Then Park the App in a Second App
By JerkCircle Staff
Town's Only Roundabout Claims Third Confused Driver This Week
By JerkCircle Staff
Farmers Market Vendor's Heirloom Tomato Now Costs More Than the Land It Grew On
By JerkCircle Staff
Library Threatened With Closure to Fund Study on Why Nobody Reads Anymore
By JerkCircle Staff
Coffee Shop Removes All Outlets, Chairs, and Hope to Discourage Lingering
By JerkCircle Staff
Local Man Becomes Neighborhood Legend by Owning a Ladder
By JerkCircle Staff
City Repaves Road, Forgets It Was Going to Dig It Up Next Month
By JerkCircle Staff
New Restaurant Has No Menu, No Prices, and a Story About Each Carrot
By JerkCircle Staff
Block Party Permit Denied by the One Guy on the Block Who Filed for It
By JerkCircle Staff
Entire City Priced Out of the City, Commutes Two Hours to Serve Coffee to the People Who Replaced Them
The baristas, teachers, and nurses now live in a town you have to explain the location of.
By A Raccoon, City Desk
Neighbor Puts Up Little Free Library, Fills It With Books He Was Going to Throw Out Anyway
By JerkCircle Staff
New Development Called The Willows Built on the Exact Spot Where the Willows Were Removed
By JerkCircle Staff
City Adds Fourth Lane, Traffic Expands to Fill It by the Following Tuesday
By JerkCircle Staff
Town's Historic Diner Replaced by Bank, Then a Different Bank, Then a Vacant Bank
By JerkCircle Staff
HOA Fines Resident for Grass One Inch Too Tall, Grass One Inch Too Short, and Having a Face
By JerkCircle Staff
New Coffee Shop Opens, Charges $8 for the Privilege of Sitting Where the Bookstore Was
By JerkCircle Staff
Man Reports Pothole for Two Years, Pothole Now a Recognized Local Landmark
By JerkCircle Staff
Neighborhood App Devolves Into a Place Where People Post Photos of a Cat They Find Suspicious
By JerkCircle Staff
City Spends $2 Million on Study Recommending a Crosswalk That Would Have Cost $8,000
By JerkCircle Staff
Rent Rose Again and the Landlord Has Generously Not Fixed the Heat to Match the Effort
By JerkCircle Staff
Local Business That Survived Everything Finally Closed by a Rent Increase and a Shrug
By JerkCircle Staff
Town Meeting Reaches Hour Four, One Man Still Explaining His Feelings About a Fence
By JerkCircle Staff
New Luxury Building Includes Rooftop Pool, Dog Spa, and Zero Units Anyone Nearby Can Afford
By JerkCircle Staff
City Removes Bench So Nobody Can Sit, Calls It a Bold Investment in Standing
By JerkCircle Staff
Farmers Market Tomato Now a Luxury Good, Comes With a Card Explaining Its Journey and Your Debt
By JerkCircle Staff
Neighborhood Watch Successfully Watches One Guy Take a Slightly Long Walk
By JerkCircle Staff
City Repaints the Lines, Ignores the Craters, Declares the Road Fixed From a Distance
By JerkCircle Staff
Landlord Lists Unit as Newly Renovated, Renovation Was a Single New Doorknob
By JerkCircle Staff
Town Approves Yet Another Storage Facility, Residents Now Storing Things They Cannot Afford to Use
By JerkCircle Staff
Local Man Becomes Legend for Owning a Truck Everyone in a Three-Block Radius Now Borrows
By JerkCircle Staff
City Council Debates the Font on the New Sign for Ninety Minutes, Skips the Budget Entirely
By JerkCircle Staff
Coffee Shop Removes Every Chair to Stop Loitering, Removes Every Customer as a Bonus
By JerkCircle Staff
New Neighbors Complain About the Bar That Was There 40 Years Before They Arrived
By JerkCircle Staff
Town Builds a Roundabout, Local Population Splits Into Those Who Understand It and Casualties
By JerkCircle Staff
Vacant Storefront on Main Street Enters Its Ninth Year of Coming Soon
By JerkCircle Staff
Neighbor's Security Camera Now Filming Your Entire Life for a Package He Never Ordered
By JerkCircle Staff
City Installs Art Instead of Fixing the Thing, Art Depicts the Thing Being Fixed
By JerkCircle Staff
Local Restaurant Adds QR Code Menu, Removes Menu, Removes Waiter, Keeps the Prices Going Up
By JerkCircle Staff
City Announces Revitalization, Revitalization Means the Rent You Pay Now Buys Someone a Boat
By JerkCircle Staff
New Cafe Sells $9 Toast Where a Family Business Stood for Three Generations
By JerkCircle Staff
Neighbor's Party Ends at 2 a.m., Same Neighbor Reports Your Lawnmower at 10 a.m. as a Disturbance
By JerkCircle Staff
Town Installs Fifth Bank on Main Street, Residents Still Cannot Afford to Put Anything in Any of Them
By JerkCircle Staff