EAST PERTH residents have had a long-running wish granted with more lighting coming to their suburb, kicking off with a blinged out pedestrian bridge over Adelaide Terrace. More light’s been a main request from locals for years, and in February 2021 East Perth Community Group treasurer Lesley Warren told councillors the bridge is meant to…

PLANS for East Perth’s Common Ground homeless support accommodation have been approved despite some lingering concerns from nearby locals. On March 1 the joint state government/Perth council Development Assessment Panel approved the 112-unit tower, which is based on a 1990s New York model of providing high-support housing to chronically homeless people.  There are some conditions…

HOPES of resurrecting Maylands Waterland for Easter have been dashed as scorching weather and logistics issues delay construction. Construction started mid-2021 and initial hopes were for a summer 2021 reopening, but then heavy rains, labour shortages and global supply problems saw the date pushed back to mid-March in time for an Easter holiday reopening (“Delays…

  MY search for the best deli in Perth took me south of the river to Angelo St Market. Part of a lovely group of shops, cafes and small bars in South Perth, it was formerly the much-loved Scutti, before rebranding in 2019. Opened in 1988, the deli has become a South Perth institution with…

A PLAN to cut down mature trees at Mount Lawley Golf Course has divided the club’s membership.  Of the hundreds of trees facing the axe and 64 that have already gone, most are the club’s tallest specimens along the fairways, leading some members to fear they’ll be left with a harsh, sunbaked course – and…

PERTH’S puzzle pros are preparing for the WA State Jigsaw Competition, a race to put together a 500-piece brainteaser that’s a closely-guarded secret until the big day. Australian Jigsaw Puzzle Association president D’Arne Healy says “a lot of people don’t realise there’s a big speed-puzzling world out there”.  Ms Healy has long been into puzzles,…

PLANS are out for the landmark Perth Girls School site in East Perth with a proposal for four towers, 742 apartments, a supermarket, arts hub, brewery and restaurant. Stretched across two sites on the corner of Wellington and Bronte Streets, owners ADC and Warburton want to close part of Bronte Street to join the two…

THE smooth running of Perth council’s City of Lights drone show on Saturday shows how close WA is to returning to a regular schedule of big events, says lord mayor Basil Zempilas. After a last-minute location change due to high winds, the 15-minute show saw 300 lit-up drones forming spacey shapes above Elizabeth Quay, marking…

A “WIND telephone” may be installed in a local park to help people grieve lost loved ones via one-way conversations into an unconnected phone.   Bayswater council recently received a request to install a wind phone from the family of local man Chris Taylor, who died in his sleep aged 34 while on a family…

A SPLIT Perth council has decided not to force the Returned and Services League to include Aboriginal people in its Anzac Day ceremonies in order to access bonus funding.  Last week council staff recommended the RSL be given $100,000 funding for Anzac Day, and proposed an $10,000 extra “conditional upon the delivery of the Equity,…