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Music. food and harmony
7:59 PM | SOUTH West MCL Barry House presented Arts Margaret River with a cheque for $2600 last week for the In Harmony – Music, Movie, Food festival.
Funds for foundation
7:49 PM | THE Edwards family of Edwards Wines recently handed over about $2500 to Deb Wilkins from the Leukaemia Foundation from their annual Australia Day family event.
Mirrambeena's stage stars
7:31 PM | THE Mega Stars Theatre Group hosted a performance at Mirrambeena aged facility on Friday, featuring the song Calendar Girls, poetry by Eileen Noakes, Blue Suede Shoes performed by ‘Elvis Presley’, a gypsy dance, music by Clyde Huxtable, and a singalong.
Brave shavers
6:06 PM | AT only 10 years of age, Kiara Hopper, Kayla Andrew and Ana Lockett, with 13-year-old Cory Walker are going to be brave and shave for the Leukaemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave.
Location of arts centre in peril
5:59 PM | AVON Valley Arts may move to the Northam Visitor Centre.
5:56 PM | THE maximum capacity of Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre remains at 600 despite false claims.
School welcomes new staff to the fold
5:53 PM | THE Bindoon Catholic Agricultural College starst the new school year with some fresh faces.
Dogs missing as claims of puppy farms abound
5:49 PM | THE saga of the missing dogs seized and impounded by the shire of Northam continues and has now moved to court.
Close call for Wooroloo residents as blaze threatens
5:45 PM | A FIRE in Chedaring Road, Wooroloo, threatened homes before being brought under control.
5:43 PM | THE Wheatbelt’s fifth memorial to Australia’s national servicemen to be dedicated in Northam.
5:39 PM | A LONG-RUNNING feud between two Northam families erupted into violence last Saturday night, with police reinforcements and the police helicopter called in.
Start of another school year
4:59 PM | STUDENTS streamed back to school last Wednesday in Augusta-Margaret River, joining almost 400,000 children across WA.
Baz's cartoon
3:36 PM | Baz's cartoon
3:34 PM | POLICE confiscated a car for 28 days on Friday night after its driver ran into the Margaret River Primary School fence.
3:25 PM | A 23-year-old local was airlifted to Perth on Saturday after a trail bike crash on private property near the Margaret River airstrip.
3:22 PM | A WORKING group should be formed to investigate planning for, potential issues and cost of providing sealed second access roads into three Capes coastal communities, Emergency Services Minister and Vasse MP Troy Buswell has suggested in a letter to ministerial colleagues.
Premier opens shire centre
3:14 PM | “A MILESTONE in the continuous history of the shire” was how Premier Colin Barnett described Augusta-Margaret River Shire’s new $13.2 million administration and civic centre he officially opened on Saturday.
Stevie signed, sealed, delivered
3:09 PM | BLIND Motown multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and record-producer legend, Stevie Wonder, will perform at Sandalford Wines, Wilyabrup, on March 2.
A rebirth of Withers
2:56 PM | WITHERS will put under the microscope to see what makes the suburb “tick” according to Bunbury MLA John Castrilli.
Planning, zones to protect region: Premier
2:29 PM | PREMIER Colin Barnett has confirmed the State Government will not consider special legislation to protect the Margaret River wine region from mining. Instead, the government will look to planning and zoning controls to protect the region, Mr Barnett told members of the Save Our South West group on Saturday.
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