Kingborough Council invited residents of the municipality to attend the open forum Annual General Meeting on Saturday, December 7. The AGM provided a platform for the public to bring forward motions, questions and concerns to the Kingborough Council and was also livestreamed to the council’s Facebook page to accommodate those who could not attend in person. Video of the event has since been...

Bruny Island residents have been assured by TasNetworks that it will safeguard their electricity supply while it replaces the island’s back-up supply cable. “We’re confident we can safeguard Bruny Island’s power supply,” said TasNetworks’ Leader of Engineering, Eddie Jager. “There’s no cause for concern.” The back-up cable between Tinderbox and Dennes Point failed on Sunday, November 3 with...

Snug local Rachael Taylor has been rewarded for outstanding effort by achieving her junior Shodan (black belt) at just 11 years of age.Rachael trains with the teenage, Ninja Warriors class to learn traditional battlefield techniques of the ninja and samurai at the Bujinkan Tasmania Dojo under Sensei Duncan Stewart.Having trained with the dojo for six years, Rachael’s Sensei has been impressed...

Kingborough Council is changing its streetlights to energy efficient LEDs as part of the Great Southern Lights project, with work expected to be completed by Christmas.“We are pleased to be changing over 1700 streetlights to LEDs across Kingborough,” said Mayor of Kingborough, Cr Dean Winter.“I would like to thank Ironbark Sustainability for managing the project, Aldridge Traffic Systems who are...

Over 500 residents of the Kingborough area have put their names to a petition asking Kingborough Council to commit to a pool in the area. The petition, organised by Rebecca Bushby and Amanda Meadows calls on council to ‘source a hydrotherapy pool for rehabilitation and swimming to address injury, illness, chronic health conditions, general health and wellbeing and social connection in...