The book is about local history but Bayswater city council had it printed in China. Mike Severn runs Success Print in Bayswater and says “the book could have easily been printed and bound within the boundaries of the City of Bayswater”. He says many locals will be “horrified to turn to the back of the…

More than $40,000 was raised at the Second to None second-hand clothes auction, held Saturday, delighting Aranmore primary school mum Ciara Thiedeman who’d aimed to raise $5000. The funds will go to Vincentcare, which supports people with mental illness. Following a story in the Voice two weeks ago there was a huge response from locals.…

Eighteen months’ work and a couple of grand spent on a native garden have been squashed flat by Water Corp contractors. Chapman Street resident Steve O’Brien took great pride in his verge, removing weedy sand and spending time and money bringing in soil and new plants. “After 18 months of surviving contractors and poor car-parkers…

An extraordinary election will be held at a cost of $26,000 to fill new Vincent mayor John Carey’s vacant council seat. WA electoral legislation prevents simply picking the third-best scoring candidates from the October 19 election to fill the third spot. Mr Carey says there was some confusion about how it would work after Alannah…

A DINGO-ROTTWEILER cross in Highgate must die following an attack in December 2012. After that attack the Lord Street dog was declared dangerous, requiring the owner to erect warning signs, keep it muzzled and leashed in public and kept it in a child-proof enclosure at home. It also had to wear a collar identifying it…

The Vietnamese boat people monument of gratitude was opened Sunday at Wade Street Reserve in Perth. The tale of the work’s progress is eerily similar to that faced by today’s asylum seekers: Its first two attempts to land, at Weld Square and then Robertson Park, were both rejected before Wade Street Reserve was finally deemed…

With the first winter now gone since the Hyde Park lakes restoration, local environmental consultant Andrew Del Marco rates the outcome of the project an eight out of 10. “They’ve made a good compromise between being true to the park, they’ve started to address the water quality issue, and they’ve done it for a pretty…

Vincent council’s valuable collection of “highly significant” historic bottles will be handed to the WA museum instead of being split up and sold off to private collectors. Some 3337 glass, ceramic and stoneware bottles, jars and vases were recovered from the old Perth and Fremantle Bottle Exchange Company site in 2001. The company operated from…

As promised the Mary Street Bakery has replaced a mural that it painted over. The original work by local artists Konfucius, Destroy and Idle was painted over when new owners took over the old Soto Espresso building. “It’s just not going to work with what we’re doing there,” one of the new owners Paul Aron…

The public artwork proposed for the controversial Albert North Perth office/unit development is proving just as contentious as the building itself. Sixteen of 20 submissions about the project oppose the giant lamp artwork by Robin Yakinthou designed for installation next to the neighbouring school. “Sculpture is derivative and not acceptable, would prefer a tree,” one…