POLICE want to identify a woman accused of pinning a car clamping contractor between two cars at a Bayswater carpark. Around 8.40am on Saturday July 11, a driver for Auto Clamp parked behind an illegally parked car in the privately-owned King William Street carpark and warned the driver to move on or get clamped. As…

SOMETIMES the only thing between a girl and a grand final dream is a good pair of boots, and the Mount Lawley/Inglewood Roos junior footy club is trying to bridge that gap with an exchange program. With kids often growing out of their boots before they’re really scuffed, the club started the el-cheapo exchange; giving…

THE hard waste currently gracing Vincent’s verges may be the last. Vincent council this week considered options to replace the annual roadside rubbish collection, with the quality of scavengable waste steadily dropping in recent years: Gumtree, Facebook marketplace and “Buy Nothing” groups have made decorating your house from roadside treasures a distant memory. Mayor Emma Cole…

ST PATRICK’S Anglican church in Mt Lawley was on point to raising more than $7,000 this week to help repair storm damage. The church held a Mediaeval Longtable Feast on July 24 where diners were treated  to the spectacle of historical combatants clashing in the aisles.  St Pat’s spent the Covid-lockdown providing hundreds of meals…

“CLOSE your eyes and just listen,” says Ron Bradfield Jnr, a saltwater Bardi man from the Kimberley region who now resides in Perth. ”Take time to hear people’s individual stories.” Storytelling has been part of Indigenous culture for over 65,000 years, which is why Northbridge’s Centre For Stories has organised The Future of Black Lives…

A BAYSWATER recycler has remained on a list of the WA Local Government Association’s “preferred suppliers” despite a harrowing history of workplace safety breaches, which included the death of a worker. Earlier this month Resource Recovery Solutions was hit with a record $500,000 fine for “gross negligence” over a 2016 incident where a worker’s arm was severed…

ST PATRICK’S Community Centre has launched the second phase of its “doorstep dinners” initiative. The program involves local businesses hit hard by Covid-19 providing meals for vulnerable members of the Freo community.  Over the next three months, the St Pat’s team will deliver over 100 meals a night to those in need, prepared by local…

PROMINENT Beaufort Street traders are fuming, claiming they’ve been left out of the latest consultation over a plan that could remove parking bays around Mount Lawley. Stirling council is planning a piazza for the carpark at 679 Beaufort Street which will see more bays lost, and this week’s committee meeting also discussed a new “Parking Management Plan”…

We are NOT all in this together SINCE the devastating COVID19 virus lockdown in early April we’ve been assailed by the togetherness mantra/‘chantra’.  Health-wise yes, we get it. But economically NO! We are NOT all in this together’. Only half of us are. The rest are still living high on the hog, just as the federal…

HISTORY in the making will be a big focus at this year’s Vincent Local History Awards, with a call for entries that document the impact of Covid-19 and restrictions on the community. Along with entries on historic people, places or events in Vincent, the Local History Centre is hoping to see modern day documentation of…