11:07 AM AEST | IT’S on again–the Emergency Services Ball 2008 is themed Hot, Wet and Wild to mark 60 years of Margaret River Volunteer Bushfire Brigades.
11:07 AM AEST | THE Margaret River Regional Environment Centre was told to stand more on its own feet last week, when the Augusta-Margaret River Shire Council agreed to let them have the Apex Shed on Clarke Road to replace the Centre.
11:05 AM AEST | TO celebrate National Science week, members of local caving group Cavers Leeuwin will offer tours of Calgardup and Golgotha Caves on Saturday, August 23 and host talks on Speleology at Witchcliffe Hall that night.
11:05 AM AEST | THE clash of surf competitions with local recreational surfers was debated at last week’s Augusta-Margaret River Shire Council meeting.
10:59 AM AEST | WHALES danced while Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse celebrated International Lighthouse Day over the weekend.
10:56 AM AEST | AN Augusta Community Blog online started by local Russell Simpson and overseen by the Augusta Telecentre has put forward new opinions on proposed Augusta development.
13/08/2008 | INSPIRED by the impending birth of her first grandchild, local Child and Family Community nurse Sandra Robertson has published A Pocket Book of Parenting Babies.
13/08/2008 | THE Augusta Community Development Association expressed disappointment with the Augusta-Margaret River Shire at the group’s meeting last Tuesday for not approving community funding for the town’s Australia Day celebrations.
13/08/2008 | SAFETY concerns are more important than fuel costs for the proposed perimeter road/bypass, it was argued at last Wednesday’s special Draft Townsite Strategy meeting.
13/08/2008 | THE proposed World Super 9 surf competition may move from October 15-25 of this year to October 2009.
13/08/2008 | AFTER the successful inaugural show last year, Equirama will take place again in Margaret River on December 6 and 7, expected to attract more than 4000 people.
13/08/2008 | THE Margaret River Regional Environment Centre in Memorial Park is expected to be rebuilt into $168,000 public toilets, with shire staff recommending the shire pay rental costs of up to $6000 to the Centre residents for alternative premises.
13/08/2008 | VASSE member Troy Buswell has expressed concern about Margaret River District Hospital after Shadow Health Minister Dr Kim Hames announced that an incoming Liberal Government would not build the new Busselton Hospital at Vasse.
13/08/2008 | THE Augusta-Margaret River Shire is sponsoring a special competition for children under 13 years of age at this year’s Margaret River and Districts Agricultural Show.
13/08/2008 | Circus Skills workshop visits Nyindamurra.
13/08/2008 | THE Draft Margaret River Townsite Strategy’s growth projections were debated at length at last week’s special council meeting, with councillors battling over growth figures and the alleged “incompetence” of the shire report.
6/08/2008 | A PUBLIC meeting is planned on the proposed redevelopment of the Turner Caravan Park from 5.30pm on Friday, August 28 at the Centennial Hall.
6/08/2008 | FORTY-two fungi enthusiasts, newcomers as well as experts and aged from eight to the 80s, spent the last weekend of June searching for fungi in Augusta’s West Bay bushland.
6/08/2008 | CONFUSION over the future of a 70 hectare parcel of land in Witchcliffe was finally settled at last week’s Augusta-Margaret River Shire Council meeting.
6/08/2008 | THE Augusta-Margaret River Shire has provided eight local community organisations with grants in its latest round of Community Development Funding.