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PERTH council launches its e-scooter hire scheme trial this week, but there’ll be no sharing between council borders as originally planned. Originally the plan was for the “Inner City Group” councils Perth, South Perth, Subiaco, Victoria Park and Vincent to share a scooter share program, but Perth’s scooters will be programmed to grind to a…
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AFTER an unlucky run of three cancelled festivals, Perth’s Irish community is gearing up to celebrate at the St Patrick’s Day festival and parade in Leederville today (Saturday March 18). In 2020 the St Patrick’s Day festival was one of the first big public events to be cancelled just days after WA recorded its first person-to-person…
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AFTER 16 years as City of Stirling CEO, Stuart Jardine had announced he’ll finish up at the end of his current contract on April 4, 2024. Mr Jardine has spent 25 years at Perth councils, and another 21 years in UK local governments. “I look back with immense pride and fulfillment on what we have…
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AN unauthorised shisha bar in Leederville operated for three years despite multiple shutdown notices from Vincent council, the latest sign of an ongoing weakness in enforcing planning rules. This week the council voted to refuse a long-overdue application to operate from Shesh Besh, an indoors middle eastern restaurant beside a hangar-style shisha patio which opened…
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STUDENTS from John Forrest Secondary College have shared their stories of migration for a book released this Harmony Week, March 15 – 21. JFSC, which has students from around 50 countries, has been involved in Harmony Day for a few years now, and last year produced a cookbook of students’ family recipes from 15 countries.…
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THIS week’s story from the Vincent Local History Centre tells of the Tower Hotel, once a grand landmark of West Perth that was demolished to make way for a freeway offramp. THE Tower Hotel, originally known as the Club Hotel, was a three-storey landmark which stood on the corner of Charles and Duke Streets in…
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A ground-breaking initiative to tackle social isolation in Fremantle has more possibilities than the number of atoms in the observable universe. I’m talking about the ancient board game Go, with City of Fremantle the first local government to hold Go sessions where people socialise and exercise their brains at the same time. Go originated in China…
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Trendy, Local Shopping in George St Pepper Shoes – Unique and beautiful shoes and accessories from around the world. PEPPER SHOES is the latest fantastic shop to open on George Street in East Fremantle and owner Camille Gribble has a very personal connection to the area. She grew up in Freo and would ride her bike…
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IT’S almost like a meaty work of art when you walk into a good butcher’s shop. Colourful kebabs, dainty meatballs, exotic sausages and glossy cuts of meats all rub shoulders in a sort of pretty abattoir run by Picasso. Situated on Bulwer Street, just up from Hyde Park, Frank Torre Quality Butcher has to be…
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by RAHUL K GAIROLA: NEW Fortune Theatre’s production of William Shakespeare’s Richard III is a dark yet entertaining tour de force that yokes the great bard into a contemporary context. The production assembles a talented cast from The Graduate Dramatic Society of WA to deliver a contemporary take on Shakespeare’s most reviled villain, Richard III…
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