The Thursday email
One calm email a week: the weekend, the notices, and what your neighbors are asking. No feed to scroll.
What’s coming
All of Elkhorn, in one place
The church supper, the home game, the garage sale on your street and the plumber your neighbors trust, without twelve Facebook groups and a rumor mill.
The calendar
Home games, church events, classes, craft fairs and storytimes, gathered from all over town into one list.
Free storefronts
Every Elkhorn business gets a free page for hours, specials, events and job openings, including jobs for teens.
Official notices only
Weather, roads, schools and utilities, straight from the people who issue them. Lost and found pets welcome. Rumors aren’t.
Neighborhood rooms
Ask Elkhorn, Good Vibes Corner, Dads’ Garage, Parents, New to Elkhorn and Help Needed, each with its own house rules.
The garage-sale map
Saturday mornings, sorted: every sale on one map. Star the ones you want and get a route.
Take the tour
The tour uses sample listings to show how the Square will work.
Digest first
No feed. One good email.
Every Thursday morning, the Square lands in your inbox with everything worth knowing for the weekend. Read it with your coffee, then get on with your day.
- The weekend’s events, sorted by day
- Official notices: weather, roads, schools
- Questions your neighbors need answered
- One quiet line from a local sponsor. No ads in the feed, ever.
FromThe Elkhorn Square
SubjectThis weekend: a harvest market, 9 garage sales and a freeze watch
The Elkhorn Square
Good morning, neighbors. Freeze watch tonight, so bring the hoses in. Here’s your weekend.
Notices
Freeze watch tonight. Down to 28°F by morning.
This weekend
Fri 7 PMFriday night football, home game
Sat 8 AMHarvest market, last one of the season
Sat 9 AMSaturday Skills: winterize your sprinklers
Sun 10:30Blessing of the Animals
Neighbors are asking
Piano teacher you love? Eight-year-old beginner. No answers yet.
The Square is free for every Elkhorn household. This week it’s supported by a local hardware store.
Sample issue
Live from the weather service
Right now in Elkhorn
On the Square, safety news comes only from the people who issue it. Here’s the real forecast and any active alerts for Elkhorn, straight from the National Weather Service.
The house rules
How the Square keeps its manners
Real names, real neighbors
Everyone here lives in or near Elkhorn and posts under their own name. That alone changes how people talk.
Every post is read first
Nothing goes up until the square keeper has read it, usually within the hour. Talk about issues, not people.
Official notices only
Safety news comes from police, fire, weather, schools and utilities. No “suspicious person” posts and no crime rumors. Lost and found pets are always welcome.
No algorithm, no likes
Newest first, sorted by section. Nothing is engineered to keep you scrolling, and there are no like counts to chase.
Free for every household
Neighbors never pay. Local businesses keep the lights on with a quiet line in the Thursday email, never ads in your feed.
Before the doors open
Become a founding neighbor
Founding neighbors get the first Thursday email, a say in what the Square becomes, and a number no one else will ever have.
The Elkhorn Square
Founding
Neighbor
NumberNo. ———
Your card, numbered in the order you joined. Keep it: founding neighbors will always be first.
For Elkhorn businesses
Your storefront is free. Forever.
A beautiful page for your hours, this week’s special, your events and your job openings, in front of the neighbors who live down the street. The first 50 businesses get the Founding Business mark, for good.
Founding Business
Wren & Rye Bakehouse
Open now · until 2 PM
This weekApple cider donuts, Saturdays only, until they’re gone.
Neighbor dealFree drip coffee with any pastry before 8 AM.
Hiring: weekend counter help. 16 and up welcome.
Sample storefront
Know what’s happening?
Send us the church supper
The bake sale, the 5K, the class at the library, the trunk-or-treat. If it’s happening in Elkhorn, we want it on the calendar. A photo of the flyer works.
“The things that used to be easy in a town, like knowing what’s happening this weekend, borrowing a ladder or finding someone to trust with your furnace, have gotten harder. The Square is here to make them easy again. I read every post before it goes up, keep the calendar current, and answer the email myself.”Pete, your square keeper
Questions
Good questions, straight answers
Is it really free?
Yes, for every neighbor, forever. Local businesses keep the lights on with one quiet line in the Thursday email. There are no ads in your feed and there never will be.
Who can join?
Anyone who lives in or near Elkhorn and is 18 or older. When the Square opens, neighbors post under their real names. That’s a big part of why it stays friendly.
Why no crime posts?
Because a town square shouldn’t run on fear. Safety news comes straight from official sources: police, fire, weather, schools and utilities. If something is happening right now, call 911. Lost and found pets are always welcome.
How is this different from a Facebook group?
It’s built for Elkhorn and nothing else. Every post is read before it goes up, there’s no algorithm deciding what you see, and the week arrives in one calm email instead of an endless feed.
Who runs it?
Pete is the square keeper. He reads every post, keeps the calendar current and answers the email himself. The Square is part of Social Squares, which builds one square per town, each run by someone local.
When does it open?
This fall. Founding neighbors will hear first, and the first Thursday email goes to them.
What does “founding neighbor” mean?
You were here before the doors opened. Your number is yours for good, and founding neighbors help decide what the Square becomes.
What happens to my information?
We use it to run the Square and send the email you asked for. We never sell it or share it with advertisers, and there are no trackers on this site. The details are in our privacy policy.