THE historic Maylands Post Office on Whatley Crescent may soon have a new life as a small bar. Bayswater council’s planning and services committee is due this week to vote on an application by architect Nori-Lynn Munoz to turn the building into an upmarket bar offering international wines and local boutique beers, with staff recommending…

BAYSWATER council has moved to crack down on opportunistic sponsors trying to permanently saddle community landmarks with corporate names. In May last year the council got a call from a very excited Bayswater City Soccer Club which had secured sponsorship from Wangara-based financiers Finance 365 and wanted to rename Frank Drago reserve stadium after its…

GOD might have said, “Let there be light,” but Bayswater council has disagreed and told the Jehovah’s Witnesses to turn off an illuminated sign outside their Maylands hall. The congregation, which is run by a body of elders, recently installed a couple of new signs at the Eighth Avenue church, but they were bigger than…

THE State Administrative Tribunal has ruled that Bayswater council acted “unreasonably” in opposing a proposed concrete batching plant on Collier Road. The SAT has ordered the council to pay $112,000 in legal costs and consultation fees to the applicant by August 11. The SAT usually doesn’t award legal costs and the move could deter other…

PERTH’S Milly Formby is planning to brave the chills of Siberia by following the migratory route of the red-necked stint in a ultralight aircraft to highlight the birds’ vulnerability. The stints are the smallest of 36 Australian migratory shorebird species and weighs about as much as a Tim-Tam. Every six months they embark on the…

BAYSWATER police have held a community meeting in Maylands following a wave of anti-social behaviour in the suburb’s business district. The area, especially Eighth Ave, has improved in leaps and bounds in recent years with swank new venues and high quality retailers opening up, but aggressive behaviour from unsavoury characters is turning punters off. With…

THE MOUNT LAWLEY primary school chess team has taken out the state title. The whiz kids beat Deanmore Primary School and Anzac Terrace PS at the Chess Association of WA school championships, and will travel to Sydney in December to compete for the national title. MLPS pupils Zachary Pendragon, David Richards, Minh Nguyen and Ethan…

BAYSWATER councillor Stephanie Coates won’t re-contest her west ward seat at the local government elections in October. When Ms Coates was elected in 2013 her kids were two, four and six years old, and in bed by 7pm when the meetings started. Now the kids are staying up later and the meetings are starting earlier.…

IN the wake of a national survey revealing that nearly 7 per cent of uni students were sexually assaulted in 2015/16, Edith Cowan Uni says its rates are lower at its Mt Lawley campus. The shocking national figures were produced by the Australian Human Rights Commission, which found  1.6 per cent of the assaults occurred…

HUMAN RIGHTS activists will march in Perth this Saturday urging federal MPs to vote for marriage equality in parliament. The Liberal party’s election platform was to go out to a “plebiscite”, allowing the country to vote on whether they wanted people to get married regardless of their sex. It will cost about $160million, but some…