AFTER being shut for nearly a month the North Perth Post Office reopened on Tuesday (March 26) with no explanation. The radio silence infuriated Perth MP John Carey and many locals who are now demanding more transparency from Australia Post. The Fitzgerald Street post office was run privately under a licence to Australia Post, but…

BUDDHA’S birthday will be celebrated April 13 and 14 in the Supreme Court Gardens. The two-day multicultural festival aims to promote “respect and tolerance, faith and legacy” and “harmonious coexistence amongst people”. The festival will be hosted by Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple, Buddha’s Light International Association WA and the Nan Tien institute. There’ll be…

RAISED garden beds made by Stirling Men’s Shed have given dementia sufferers at the Nollamara Day Club a new lease of life. The day centre caters for about 75 people from six groups and about half of those attending have dementia. Members have taken a sense of ownership by going to the shops to buy…

A COMMUNITY safety service in Perth has helped reunite an elderly women with her husband. At about 1.30pm on Saturday (March 16), a worried Melville local rang their council’s safety team to report an elderly woman had gone missing from a local senior citizens centre. After advising the caller to contact police to report the disappearance,…

STIRLING deputy mayor David Lagan says his council will listen to Mt Lawley residents if they really hate proposed modifications to a dangerous intersection. On Saturday Cr Lagan joined mayor Mark Irwin and six of his colleagues at a public meeting organised by residents to protest against the council’s plan to allow only left-hand turns…

KIDS at Maylands Peninsula Primary School are having to use their playground in shifts because there’s not enough equipment. Students number have doubled to 650 since the school opened in 2004 and Federal Labor Perth MP Patrick Gorman says parents told him there’s a weekly roster to use the playground equipment. Mr Gorman lobbied shadow…

QUEENSLAND box trees are a safety hazard and have no place in Stirling, says councillor Joe Ferrante. At Stirling’s last meeting, Cr Ferrante called for staff to investigate Claremont council’s trial removal of the species and he wants his council to consider something similar. Cr Ferrante says residents should have the right to trim back…

FEDERAL LABOR has pledged $1.5 million to help save Maylands Waterland if they win the upcoming federal election. The ageing council-owned facility was set to close at the end of the summer season after the city said it couldn’t afford to pay for essential repairs and upgrades and had been unsuccessful in securing external funding.…

FORMER Stirling mayor Terry Tyzack faces having his name scrubbed off signage outside an Inglewood aquatic centre named in his honour. Stirling councillor Suzanne Migdale has called for individual names to be removed from the external signage and marketing of all Stirling’s leisure centres so they can be branded according to their suburb. She says…

A BAYSWATER real estate agent unhappy with Bayswater council’s plans to build a toilet at the foot of the Seventh Avenue bridge in Maylands delivered a code-brown protest from a portable loo on Saturday. Locals have been kicking up a stink over the council’s lack of public consultation since the location was revealed in February.…