Sisters celebrate their 50th
ON November 21, 1962, Sister Cecilia Salvadori (right) moved into a small property on Attfield Street. More than 50 years later, she’s still there. This weekend, Sister Cecilia and four […]
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Fill ’er up
Freo app launch FREMANTLE mayor Brad Pettitt is backing a smartphone app that marries up disused properties with clients. Spacemarket will launch its Why so empty? app today, Saturday April […]
Missing Mags LADY Thatcher, as she was then, made huge gains for small business by starting, with MP Sir Michael Grylls and Alan Cleverley The Small Business Bureau which gave […]
Informal talks not ‘secret’
GRAEME MACKENZIE is the CEO at Fremantle city council. In this week’s THINKING ALLOWED he takes issue with the Herald’s reporting. Thinking Allowed…or is it? The name of this column […]
Freo going cheep
Local Greens pollie Lynn MacLaren says Fremantle is the “canary on the coastline” when it comes to global warming. The south metropolitan MP has just returned from California where the […]
MP wants WA deposit scheme
New Fremantle Labor MP Simone McGurk says the decade-old fight for cash for recycled cans and bottles will drag on unless WA implements its own scheme. She’d like the state […]
Just Wild about bread
WILD BAKERY, South Fremantle by JENNY D’ANGER: A week without bread and White Gum Valley chef Darragh Grier (right) was researching sourdough bread-making. The result was Hannah’s bread, a superlative, […]
Getting their just deserts
JACS, Applecross: “JACS provides a nice atmosphere that universally appeals to all” says owner Mike Cikara. Since opening in 2008, JACS Applecross, named so because of the Jacaranda trees that […]
Seafood by the sea
MUSSEL BAR, Fremantle: Bloody Mary oysters. Green Thai curry mussels. Pan-fried banana prawns. A seafood platter for two with a tasting selection of aforementioned delicacies. Walking into the Mussel Bar […]
Life of i
American monologist Mike Daisey’s expose of Apple’s factories in China was a powerful and deeply moving account of inhuman working conditions. After hearing his piece The Agony and Ecstasy of […]