MISQUAH — The Hagen pasture file crossed into new furniture last week. With comments arriving at a pace of roughly one a day and the total now at forty-seven, Clerk Donna Skoglund ordered a second file drawer, which arrived Thursday, was installed Friday, and was half full by Monday morning. “I priced it, and then I bought it, and I would like the record to show that I held out for three weeks,” she said. “The record will show that.”

Written comment closes Tuesday, August 18, at the close of the window — 4:30 p.m., and the clerk has taken the unusual step of stating in advance that the close will resemble the fair’s. “Noon meant noon at the extension office,” she said. “Four-thirty means four-thirty here. I have heard the pie story. It will not work on me. It might work a little.”

The board’s special meeting follows Tuesday, August 25, at 7 p.m. at city hall, where the planning board will settle on the recommendation it sends to the council. Chairman Ross Vig continues to read everything twice and to say nothing, a discipline that has now lasted a full month and that several observers have begun to find impressive rather than frustrating. Ald. Pete Hagen remains recused.

Late arrivals have grown more specific: recent comments address septic capacity, the county road’s shoulder width, and, in two cases, the loons — one writer noting that the pasture’s shoreline is across the bay from the nesting platform and asking what eighteen docks would mean for a bird that has taken all summer to teach two chicks to fly. The clerk reports it is the first comment to make her put down her coffee.