Category: Newspaper

The June 24, 2015 Walpole Weekly is out now. In this week’s issue:

• Walpole & Nornalup Inlets Marine Park Coordinator position rumoured to be terminated and stakeholders are unimpressed;
• Walpole Town Jetty opening delayed;
• Gerner’s first Black Périgord truffle;
• Molly Smith honours Walpole’s first Visitor Centre manager, Doreen Whale;
• Lower Great Southern Women’s Golf Association Zone Championship 2015 forced to “swing or swim” at the Walpole Country Club.

  And much more … Download the June 24, 2015 Walpole Weekly (PDF 3MB).

 

The June 17, 2015 Walpole Weekly is out now. In this week’s issue:

• Denmark Medical Centre CEO Chris Swarts says the GP medical service his organisation provides won’t change but that its sustainability is “under threat”;
• Joel Pedro of North Walpole checks in from a fast-flowing Greenland ice stream;
• Walpole CRC trainee Mimma Thompson describes her adventures on the high seas with the STS Leeuwin II;
• Department of Parks & Wildlife staff describe how a message in a bottle made its way from Rottnest Island to the beach at Blue Holes;
• Local artists Liz Edmonds and Penny Jewell will headline the Tree Top Walk exhibit as part of the Southern Art and Craft Trail;
• More than 85 women wielding clubs will descend upon Walpole this weekend;

And much more … Download the June 17, 2015 Walpole Weekly (PDF 4 MB).

The June 10, 2015, Walpole Weekly is out now. In this week’s issue:

• Healthcare services in Walpole may be drastically cut back from July 1;
• The Shire of Manjimup on Monday discovered the illegal clearing of a hectare of land along the Walpole foreshore;
• The Department of Parks & Wildlife (DPaW) is radio-tracking pigs in the Walpole Wilderness;
• “Juggy” Jim Love has retired after 14 years with DPaW;
• The BTH Ladies raised $1,150 for cancer research;
• Local footballer Cohen Taylor was adjudged best on ground as Nyoogar Country thrashed Yamatji Sharks in the Stephen Michael Cup;

And much more … Download the June 10, 2015, Walpole Weekly (PDF 4 MB).

The June 3, 2015 Walpole Weekly is out now. In this week’s issue:

• “Litter hero” Michael Filby has found used hypodermic needle containers in highway park-bays and rest areas. And he’s not impressed;
• Winter is here and Jodie Whitfield of the Department of Agriculture & Food WA has some tips for small landholders;
• Diane Beckingham goes cuckoo in her Nature Notes column;
• Walpole Police is inviting locals to a coffee and chat on Thursday;
• Walpole Primary students do well at the Albany Music Eisteddfod;

And more … Download the June 3, 2015 Walpole Weekly (PDF 3 MB)

The May 27, 2015 Walpole Weekly is out now. In this week’s issue:

• Terry Redman is unaware of any applications for hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) activity in his Warren-Blackwood electorate;
• The Walpole Wilderness gets a slice of new investment in camping and caravanning facilities;
• The Walpole Nornalup Tourism Association has quietly launched its new tourism website;
• Rates may rise thanks to the State Government raising borrowing charges, according to the Shire of Denmark;
• It’s National Reconciliation Week, May 27-June 3, and a massacre has been memorialised near Raventhorpe;
• Perth’s “grandfather of blues” Rick Steele will perform live in Walpole on May 30;

And more … Download the May 27, 2015 Walpole Weekly (PDF 3 MB).

The May 20, 2015 Walpole Weekly is out now. In this week’s issue:

• Manjimup Shire President Wade DeCampo urges the public to show “tolerance and compassion” for prescribed burning;
• The Walpole & Districts community raised nearly $3,000 for Dianne Pickersgill’s adopted Nepalese orphanage;
• El Niño could provide a welcome relief for Western Australia’s oceans;
• A free event in Albany will focus on research, case-studies, and management of the plant disease phytophthora dieback;
• The sun powers the Walpole Sport & Recreation Centre;
• Junior football was a hit in Walpole on Saturday;

And more … Download the May 20, 2015 Walpole Weekly (PDF 4 MB).

 

The May 13, 2015 Walpole Weekly is out now. In this week’s issue:

• $20 million of Royalties for Regions funds are being funneled into a prescribed burning program in WA’s South West;
• Manjimup Shire President Wade DeCampo has condemned the abuse of 417 visa holders;
• Michael Filby has found another dumping site in the Walpole Wilderness;
• Diane Beckingham discusses fungi in her Nature Notes column;
• Seniors are going digital at the Walpole CRC;
• Footy fever is coming to Walpole town oval this Saturday;

And more … Download the May 13, 2015 Walpole Weekly (PDF 4 MB).

The May 6, 2015 Walpole Weekly is out now. In this week’s issue:

• Dianne Pickersgill is calling on the community to help her support her adopted orphanage in the aftermath of Nepal’s devastating April 25 earthquake;
• Walpole will enjoy the return of allied health services until the end of June;
• The Department of Parks & Wildlife is planning to dredge Coalmine Beach;
• David Edmonds of the Walpole-Nornalup National Parks Association updates us on a project to rehabilitate peat swamps;
• The CropLife Australia boss counters a letter from last week that expressed concern about genetically-modified farming;
• Molly Smith looks back at the 1983 plans for the Town Jetty, which is now being replaced after 32 years;

And more … Download the May 6, 2015 Walpole Weekly (PDF 4 MB).

 

The April 29, 2015 edition of the Walpole Weekly is out now. In this week’s Centenary of ANZAC issue:

• Main Roads updates the Weekly on the status of South Western Highway upgrades;
• Geoffrey Newby ponders the links between music, symbols, stories, and memory;
• Karen Andersson worries about genetically modified organisms;
• Diane Beckingham notes that the health of osprey populations is a good indicator of the health of our environment;
• An enduro motorcycle event took place in forests near Walpole;
• Walpole golfers impress in Esperance;

And more … Download the April 29, 2015 edition of the Walpole Weekly (PDF 5 MB)

The April 22, 2015 edition of the Walpole Weekly is out now. In this week’s issue:

• Walpole can look forward to a new floating jetty and two new concrete boat ramps on July 3, which is when Town Jetty is scheduled to reopen after a two-month closure;
• The Walpole Community Resource Centre is offering local livestock producers the use of a scanning wand so that they may comply with NLIS database requirements;
• Walpole’s top cop Sgt David Wall reminds motorists to adhere to school zone speed limits;
• Michael Filby picks up the roadside rubbish exposed by February’s fires;
• Walpole-Nornalup National Parks Association members have gone batty;
• Pics from MARSAREX;

And more … Download the April 22, 2015 edition of the Walpole Weekly (PDF 3 MB)