This chapter portrays Ringwood, a small English market town, as both a physical community and a fragmented public sphere. It examines how limited local governance, scarce journalistic coverage, and the dominance of social media shape public communication. With traditional newspapers largely absent, Ringwood’s main news outlet, the Ringwood & Fordingbridge News, operates without journalists, publishing unedited press releases and adverts disguised as stories. Local Facebook groups and pages have filled the gap, creating lively but uneven spaces for civic exchange, where nostalgia and concerns about crime often dominate. The chapter highlights a widening gap between the town’s calm, orderly everyday life and its anxious, digitally mediated identity, raising questions about truth, accountability, and belonging in small-town democracies.