Harpenden spent years without a single bank counter of its own. What it has now is a shared one at 35 High Street, open weekdays with a different bank on duty each day — modest, and a good deal better than nothing.
The Perch, a cocktail bar with a second venue in Berkhamsted, has registered as a food business at 5 Station Road, Harpenden. A late licence on that stretch would matter more than the paperwork.
The restaurant at 2 Grove Road, which we reported registering in September, was given the top food hygiene score on 5 October.
The 366 from Harpenden and Batford will not serve the stops near St Helen's Church in Wheathampstead today or tomorrow, between 9.30am and 4pm.
The Luton–Harpenden–Watford 321 will not call at the Town Hall stop on Chequer Street from 8pm tonight until 5am on Saturday 10 October.
Police say five young people have signed Acceptable Behaviour Agreements after drinking and abusive behaviour in Rothamsted Park, Harpenden Common and Oakley Road.
Marshalswick Lane is closed around the clock until Friday 2 October, so the Harpenden-to-Hatfield X10 is sending passengers to Colney Heath Lane instead.
The Borough Market bakery and baking school takes over the old Jacksons Plumbing unit on Harpenden High Street on 12 October, bringing all-day dining downstairs and a classroom above.
St Albans City and District Council is to be abolished and Harpenden absorbed into a new authority stretching west to Berkhamsted and Tring. Nothing changes on the doorstep until 2028 — but the town has until next May to work out who will speak for it.
A quiet few days for the candidate file, with one item worth your time: a cocktail bar has registered at a Station Road address that was last listed to The Meating Room.
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Kalimera is registered at 14B Leyton Road and awaiting its first hygiene inspection, the usual sign that a food business is about to open.
Sarakh has registered as a restaurant at 2 Grove Road, near Harpenden station, and is awaiting its first hygiene inspection.
Three bakers and a mobile caterer have newly registered in Harpenden and have yet to be given a hygiene rating.
The pub on the green at Hatching Green has a new food business registration with St Albans council and no rating until inspectors visit.
Red Eagle's school services to St George's and Katherine Warrington schools changed numbers, timetables and routes on 1 September.
St Albans council says 1,150 drivers a day are using Harpenden's on-street pay-and-display bays, and cash is now accepted as well as the app.
Two drivers summonsed to court after enforcement on Redbourn Road and other local routes, and speeding comes off the neighbourhood priority list.
Officers have identified a group of young people behind drinking and drug use in Harpenden's parks and have contacted their parents, alongside extra patrols with the town council.
St Albans council agreed on 10 September to raise the maximum on-the-spot penalty from £1,000, with duty-of-care fines up to £1,000.
A battery put out with household waste in Batford started a fire in a refuse lorry on Common Lane on 21 July; the crew ejected the burning rubbish and firefighters arrived within four minutes.