TasWater’s $50 million upgrade of the sewage treatment plant at Blackmans Bay has reached a major milestone with flows from the old plant now cut-over to the new facilities. The new Intermittent Decant Extended Aeration (IDEA) treatment process has the capacity to treat sewage from up to 40,000 households, nearly double what the old plant could manage. TasWater CEO Michael Brewster said this...

Snug last weekend was inundated scouts who attended the 56th Scout/Guide Regatta with nearly a thousand participants from as close as North West Bay and as far away as Smithton.  There were 2500 individual and/or team entries for the activities over the three days.The regatta provides an opportunity to engage in a variety of activities not usually available under expert...

Django’s Tiger are an exciting group of young musicians who performed at West Winds Community Centre in Woodbridge last year. They were sensational, so West Winds decided that they had to have them back to start off the jazz afternoons for 2019.Djangos Tiger is not a cover band, they are immersed in the style and character of the music of Reinhardt and Grappelli, but they make it their own and...

The residents and beach-goers of the Kingborough community have become increasingly frustrated as another summer ends, and the prospects of having safe local beaches to swim at next summer remains uncertain.Blackmans Bay Beach south has been off limits for swimmers for the entire 2018-19 summer, due to high levels of contamination after testing over the past few months, receiving a red colour...

A Tasmanian State Team Qualifying event for trampoline and tumbling were held at the Kingborough Sports Centre during the weekend of February 23 and 24.  There are two more qualifying events, including the Tasmanian State Championships in April before the team is selected and announced.Gymnasts who obtained qualification scores:Senior International:Damien Axelsen (men’s double-mini)Matthew...