Kingborough Council hosted its annual awards ceremony on Saturday, January 11 at the Kingborough Community Hub in Kingston, to recognise and celebrate residents who have made an outstanding contribution to the well-being of the Kingborough community. The Mayor of Kingborough, Cr Dean Winter presented the Citizen of the Year, Young Citizen of the Year, Community Group of the Year and a...

The Channel community were able to celebrate the first event at the Woodbridge Village Green on Wednesday, December 18 with Carols by Twilight. “This is a milestone in the life of this exciting community asset,” event organiser Ann Dechaineux remarked. As the gathering settled into the small, stone-lined amphitheatre in anticipation of sharing Christmas spirit and song together, Ms Dechaineux...

Bruny Island Community Health Centre hosted a team from CareFlight recently as they ran their Sick and Injured Kids in the Bush workshop. CareFlight runs accredited training for clinical specialists and a range of free education and training programs to build resilience in regional, rural and remote areas as well as providing aeromedical services.  The workshop included theoretical...

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...