No appetite for redevelopment? COLLIE street/main drag of Fremantle.  The old Hungry Jacks building; I wonder if anybody out there can explain to me why this building, in the heart of […]

Home power LET’S try and get it right. Recently the WA government announced a plan to take up the excess power generated by solar rooftop during the day. About $100 […]

Memory extinction THIS is our family reunion, Fremantle 2016 photo. We were so disappointed that, six years later, it is no longer possible to take such a photo. We must […]

Positive place WITH regard to “A joke? “ (Herald Letters, July 23, 2022). As a new arrival in the West End of Fremantle, I may have a slightly different perspective […]

Amen “DEAR Notre Dame – we need to talk,” wrote [Fremantle mayor] Hannah Fitzhardinge to the Herald on May 14, 2021. The recent letter to the Herald from councillor Rachel […]

Catastrophic THE stance taken by David Weber in his letter Meoutrage (Herald letters, July 2, 2022) is disappointing.  How many times have I heard cat owners say “oh, no, my cat doesn’t kill […]

There’s more to the story LAST week’s Herald didn’t quite tell the whole story about the proposed rates for 2022/23.  The fact is that the proposed differential rates are:  Therefore, residents […]

Thanks folks I WOULD like to say a big thank you  to Lisa, Jaimee and Bela who work at David Thorn and Associates for the work the do for the […]

Got it? Right ON SHARED bike and pedestrian paths, I choose to walk on the righthand side. Why? Because I can see the bike coming and note if the rider […]

Time to act FIRSTLY, a big thank you to Izzy’s writing in to call out the High Street “Upgrade” solution for the ugly monstrosity that it is (“Just too much,” […]