Author: Your Herald
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A BEECHBORO man has been charged with robbing two pharmacies in Mt Lawley and Highgate. On March 10 the accused allegedly entered McKenzie’s Chemist on Beaufort Street and threatened staff—intimating he had a weapon—and stole medication. On March 13 he allegedly threatened staff and stole medication from Superchem Pharmacy on Beaufort Street. The 33-year-old has…
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MAYLANDS cultural icon Old Bakery on 8th shuts the doors for good this Sunday. Four friends started the gallery in the old bakery building 17 years ago to showcase local artists. But Kath Lymon says she, Anne Butorac and Ross and Rosemary Cant “felt that we’d taken it as far as it could go”. “We…
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Bigger means cheaper PAUL COLLINS of Coolbinia is critical of the proposed amalgamation of councils (Voice Mail, March 8, 2014). Mr Collins refers to “community of interest” locations (eg, Inglewood’s community of interest location being centred on Beaufort Street towards Mt Lawley, not Morley). With all due respect to Mr Collins, the concept of an…
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LAUGHTER was the last thing I expected from Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, a play full of dark themes including domestic violence. But Australia’s Sigrid Thornton is such a superb actor that her comic timing is perfect as faded southern belle Blanche Dubois, in this Black Swan production at the State Theatre. Director Kate…
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I HAVE never been game enough to try…well game…and at first Casper, being from Denmark—the country, not WA’s southern paradise—was worried about eating so much Australian wildlife. But when the star dish was presented beautifully before us our curiosity for Aboriginal cuisine won us over. The Kuditj platter ($9.95) was piled high with wild lime-smoked…
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HOLMFIRTH is home to long-running BBC series Last of the Summer Wine, which starred a young and chubby Catherine Zeta Jones gambolling through some of the prettiest country you could ever wish to wander. Holmfirth Street is in Menora and while CZJ hasn’t been spied in these parts, this is as pretty a home you…
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PUBLIC housing tenants have been told to remove car shelters and carbay markings they’d installed to help manage carparking at their Smith Street complex. The WA housing department has already brought in contractors to remove numbers from the bays, saying the three-year-old enhancements were unauthorised. Julius Re, 82, says the improvements help “make life a…
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DECISIONS made in secret have skyrocketed at Vincent, with the council tripling the number of times it went behind closed doors in five months. Till October the average number of secret items was a smidge over one per meeting, but CEO John Giorgi has recently been putting many more on the for-your-eyes-only list. Mayor John…
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P A R E N T A L W A R N I N G A D V I C E The following story includes a naughty word, the sort of word young Tristan or Chelsea probably hears every day in the playground, or catches on TV where it’s said with gleeful abandon.…
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STIRLING residents annoyed at rubbish cluttering their verges could end up paying $45 for a skip, as the council canvasses residents on new waste collection services. The council came under fire last year when it switched to one annual verge collection, resulting in a slow pick-up and piles of trash sitting on verges for weeks.…
