JUST before the coronavirus became a pandemic, Inglewood went all hipster with its first ever parklet. Featuring a swing bench for people of all ages and Jenga-style seating, the parklet is outside Finlay and Sons café on Dundas Road. Parklets are temporary public meeting spaces in parking bays, designed to attract people to the area…

SPORT and community groups that have leases with Vincent council will have to undergo an “annual health check” under a proposed new policy. The council has faced something of a rebellion from clubs recently after trying to claw back costs it believes they should be picking up, such as smoke alarm testing, termite treatments or…

CORONAVIRUS killed off their public forum, but Labor pollies Josh Wilson and Patrick Gorman did their best to keep climate change on the agenda by having a crack at an online talkfest last week. The Perth Future Forum: Future of Climate Action featured MPs Gorman and Wilson (who’s Labor’s shadow assistant minister for the environment)…

INGLEWOOD mum Roslyn Park had a lightbulb moment to take children’s minds off COVID-19 – and it’s gone down a storm on social media. She’s put up solar-powered fairy lights on her garden and verge trees to make things seem a bit brighter for her neighbours’ kids and passersby. “Bugger it, these fairy lights haven’t…

A PETITION of 109 signatures calling for parking on Highgate’s Turner Street to be moved across the road has fallen flat, after a bit of digging from Vincent council found residents weren’t all that keen on changing the status quo. The petition was organised by Turner Street resident Lauren Ireland, who wanted all on-street parking…

PERTH council says it’s almost inevitable it will have to shut down some of its services as a result of Coronavirus. It is also implementing a ban on anyone known to have been overseas from entering its administration centre. On Tuesday the council held a special meeting to discuss its response to the virus, which…

AN army of volunteers who’ve stepped up to ensure Perth’s seniors have some support to get through Coronavirus has restored local MP John Carey’s faith in humanity. After blanket media coverage of people brawling and panic buying in response to the fast-approaching pandemic, Mr Carey said he was “simply blown away” by the community’s response…

CORONAVIRUS didn’t deter 18 healthy volunteers from doing the first busy bee at the Inglewood Mt Lawley Community Garden last Sunday. Since Stirling council approved the garden in May last year, 470 people have signed up to transform the patch of land next to the Inglewood Bowling and Sports Club on Stancliffe Street. “The garden…

SECRET debates at Bayswater committee meetings will continue after Cr Catherine Ehrhardt’s motion to open them to the public was voted down. Cr Ehrhardt said it was in line with the council’s ongoing transparency push to open meetings to the public and post audio recordings of them online, which has been adopted by a number…

REPEATED beheading of the snail sculptures in Bardon Park in Maylands has led to their removal. Bayswater councillor Catherine Ehrhardt reports “unfortunately due to ongoing senseless vandalism of the snails in the children’s playground at Bardon Park, the snails will be removed and replaced with stepping stones”.  Their removal was roundly mourned when Cr Ehrhardt…