Seniors village turmoil
A BROKEN garden tool sparked a feud between tenants at Fremantle’s Tapper Street Mews retirement village in White Gum Valley. The ugly spat has escalated into a six-year dispute involving […]
Cockburn sups sweet Fremantle Nectar
IT’S not quite on the scale of the Dockers coup, but Cockburn has again muscled in on Fremantle, poaching its International Women’s Day festival. Nectar has been held in Fremantle […]
Greens launch
THE Greens held their local state election launch at the Fremantle Art Centre last weekend—two years after the council refused permission for a candidates’ forum at the venue, claiming political […]
Pollie plug probe
‘totally irrelevant to my personal endorsement of Janet Woollard’ MELVILLE city council is looking into one of its councillors because he’d endorsed the re-election of independent Alfred Cove MP Janet […]
Power of clayer
HELPING Rwandan massacre trauma victims by using clay therapy had such a profound healing effect that Hamilton Hill local Kym O’Meara has been invited to teach at the national university. […]
KULCHA is turning 30
To celebrate the multicultural arts organisation is holding a shindig Friday, February 22, with a massive triple line-up. The night features exotic world music songstress Grace Barbe, middle-east groovers Daramad […]
Windy
THE world’s fourth-largest wind turbine producer was in Fremantle this week to put pressure on Fremantle Ports to free up land on Rous Head for a wind farm. Enercon, which […]
Police pledge a furphy: PCYC chief
HILTON PCYC president Bob Meredith says the Barnett government has pulled a swifty on the public, with its promise to staff PCYCs with uniformed officers failing to live up to […]
Death prompts bends warning
DIVERS are warned to tread carefully following the death of a 39-year-old man off Rottnest Island at the weekend. Fremantle’s hyperbaric medical director Neil Banham says people need to carefully […]
Letters 16.2.13
Very Freo? ABOUT 7.30am Sunday we went to the South Beach dog beach. On the grass area were some people doing communal exercises and nearby two sleepy small dogs were […]
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