THE three-bin “FOGO” system is scheduled to be rolled out in Vincent in October 2020 after unanimous support from councillors this week. The third bin is for food and garden organics, which on average is about 55 per cent of the waste in a resident’s bin. Currently the organic waste gets shipped to the tip…

A LOCAL resident who’s also the CEO of a southern council about to incinerate its waste, says Vincent council shouldn’t bother with FOGO. Stephen Cain’s day job is heading up Cockburn council, but he fronted Vincent’s public question time on Tuesday as a resident to voice his concerns about the three-bin system. His plea fell…

THIS year’s Autumn River Festival will be scaled back after Lotterywest pulled funding. For the past three years Bayswater council has got a $20,000 Lotterywest grant, almost half the cost of the festival. But this year Lotterywest said it had already doled out enough cash in Bayswater, citing events such as the Ninja Warrior Park…

PEOPLE in Maylands town centre will no longer have to cross their legs after Bayswater council approved a new public toilet near Seventh Avenue bridge. There’s no outhouse within 350m of the Maylands train station and locals have been complaining for nearly a decade about people peeing and defecating there. But Marie Havila, who is…

VINCENT mayor Emma Cole says she copped “horrible abuse” this week following a media report that misled people into thinking her council wanted to ditch its Australia Day citizenship ceremonies. Last Friday, The West Australian ran a story under the headline “Council’s Jan 26 fury” based on a letter Ms Cole wrote to citizenship minister…

AN exhibition about the world’s largest remaining temperate woodland aims to gain formal recognition and protection from mining for one of Western Australia’s least-understood environments. The Wilderness Society has long advocated against mining in the Great Western Woodlands, an area that runs from the Nullarbor to the Wheatbelt and is considered a biodiversity hotspot for…

THE historic mini music festival Neon Picnic returns to Hyde Park on Saturday March 23. RTR’s Neon Picnic was the precursor to In The Pines festival, which has been held every year at UWA’s Somerville Auditorium since 1994. The first Neon Picnics was held in the late 1980s when the radio station was still called…

PROMINENT Beaufort Street restaurants Cantina 663 and Red Cray closed last week sparking fears the area has entered another slump. The closures come in the wake of news reports that some commercial rents on Beaufort St are higher than those in the CBD. Extortionate rents, too many franchises, and customers spending less have all been…