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AS the rainy season approaches, residents living around Beatty Park Reserve fear their houses will again be flooded if Vincent council doesn’t fix drainage problems pronto. Homes just north of the park were badly inundated in the 2010 storms. An overwhelmed drainage network, leaves and mulch from Beatty Park clogging the stormwater grates, and the…
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AFTER a wave of verge trees keeled over in Perth’s recent heatwave, an audit will be carried out across Bayswater to assess the toll and find out how to keep the survivors alive. Bayswater has some of the highest levels of hard “grey” surfaces such as pavement in the country, ripe to capture sunlight and…
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AN on-call cleaning cart scooting around the CBD has proved so popular it’ll have its patrol extended. Perth council brought in the solar-powered ‘Clean Machine’ (a repurposed golf cart) last September for a trial that coincided with AFL grand final week. It was immediately popular and during the trial 120 businesses or visitors called the…
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WOMEN will get their own tool library and workshop in Bayswater, the first dedicated women’s shed in the state. The Bayswater Women’s Hub has fixed a five-year lease with Bayswater council to move into the long-vacant building kiosk, changerooms and bunker at Shearn Memorial Park in Maylands. The not-for-profit group ran some trial tool skills…
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THERE comes a time when the pressures of life can start to erode the wide-eyed joy and creativity you took for granted as a child. This happens to the protagonist in the play The Great Un-Wondering of Wilbur Whittaker, who by middle-age has conformed to the 9-5 and his dreary, sensible life in the suburbs.…
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The lightbulb moment that never was WHILE it is great news that about one third of Vincent is likely to get underground power, the community should not be under any illusion that this is a result of anything initiated by the Vincent council or administration – it is purely a response to an offer from Western Power.…
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IMAGINE living in a top-notch inner city home with plenty of room and a decent garden? It sounds fanciful, but this three bedroom two bathroom Bulwer Street house ticks all those boxes and is a real stunner. Things get off to a great start with a classic facade, decorative security screen and stained glass front…
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THE Caledonian Avenue crossing in Maylands will close this coming Easter weekend, with hopes for a pedestrian underpass now dashed. The state government says closing the crossing is “necessary for the Forrestfield-Airport Link” track upgrades which will see more trains along that line. Closing it to cars isn’t too controversial since it’s already constantly clogged…
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A NEW street art festival’s coming to cover the Mount Lawley’s cafe strip in murals next month. The inaugural No More Blank Walls festival’s bringing a bunch of local artists together for live mural painting, street art tours, a gallery exhibition and artist talks. It’s been organised by local street art company Blank Walls, and…
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Rider goes flying over dodgy pothole repair A MT HAWTHORN resident has been left with a $1000 ambulance bill, lost work, a potential permanent disability and a broken scooter after coming a cropper on some pretty ordinary-looking road repairs in Vincent. Courtney Langer was on his way to visit his brother in Bourke Street, Leederville…
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