Manjimup Bridgetown Times

Avocado ProjectPlan for massive avo crop

Agricultural investment group Alterra Ltd has secured a 30 year lease on 300ha of land to conduct a feasibility study into establishing a large scale avocado growing project in Pemberton.

Tristan Wheeler

Oliver Barnes and Andrew McBain from Alterra.

MBT XIMitchell and Bamess open batting

Tristan Wheeler

Mental HealthCouncil puts $10,000 into youth fund

Bridgetown-Greenbushes Shire Council has agreed to donate $10,000 dollars to the 3 Tier Mental Health Service, a Blackwood Youth Action program that helps Year 10 students with their mental health.

Tristan Wheeler

Times LifePassion now a career

A combined passion for art and inclusivity throughout life has driven Emily Smith into a career illustrating comic books and setting up Dungeons and Dragons games for Lower South West youths.

Holly Thompson

Cane ToadMr Toad’s wild ride ends

A Manjimup business has found a cane toad within the town’s light industrial area.

Tristan Wheeler

Wildlife AidInjured wildlife set to reap what students sew

Pemberton District High School’s Year 6 class has continued its commitment to helping wildlife, sewing and decorating pouches for wildlife injured by bushfires.

Tristan Wheeler

Hospital escapeSouth West man charged over ‘false’ COVID claims

A Bridgetown man has been charged after allegedly claiming he had COVID-19 while in police custody.

Tristan Wheeler

Cidery SocialGreen day is pure gold

Bridgetown residents put on their finest green attire to celebrate The Cidery and Blackwood Valley Brewing Company’s 20th birthday, as well as St Patrick’s Day.

Tristan Wheeler

Digital plan for tourism

Southern Forests and Valleys Tourism Association has decided to go digital rather than cancel its planned launch.

Volunteers move to help isolated

Communities around the South West are coming together to offer responses to the COVID-19 virus.

Basketball awards come early

Due to COVID-19, the Bridgetown Basketball Association has finished the season early, awarding championships according to the league table after each team had completed 12 rounds.

Artist InterviewLemon Myrtle shows styles

Manjimup’s Lemon Myrtle, otherwise known as Hannah Styles, has released her first EP, the Dentist.

Tristan Wheeler

Sport CancellationVirus hits sporting seasons

Sporting seasons around the region have been postponed due to the COVID-19 virus.

Tristan Wheeler

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Trial of the centuryClaremont trial: Everything you need to know

For so long, so much has been said and written about the Claremont serial killings, but so little was known. Now for the first time, read everything you need to know about the ‘trial of the century’.

The West Australian

SEE THE FULL LISTStirling, Joondalup, Wanneroo WA’s virus hotspots

A new “heat map” released by the WA Health Department shows the Cities of Stirling, Joondalup and Wanneroo as the state’s coronavirus hot spots.

Sarah Steger

WATCH NOWCousins Uncut: Watch the footage too raw for TV

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Cousins opens up on time behind bars, getting king hit as a partying teen and breaking a promise to his young son in unreleased clips from the Brownlow medallist’s Coming Clean doco.

Rourke Walsh

Regional News

JAIL LIKELY‘Low, disgusting act’: Man spits in officers’ faces

“There is not a member of the community who would sanction the behaviour of this lowlife.” Police union boss has his say on Geraldton incident.

Adam Poulsen

Promising signsWA set for record seeding as farmers send sheep east

Farmers in the southern regions are set to allocate more of their land to grain production after a big sell off of sheep to the Eastern States over recent months.

Jenne Brammer

‘False claim’Man told cops he ‘had COVID-19 before escape attempt’

A Bridgetown man who allegedly falsely claimed he had the coronavirus while in police custody has fronted court in WA over a string of charges including aggravated assault and criminal damage.

Shannon Verhagen and Tristan Wheeler

Violence fear as alcohol sales rise

Alcohol sales have soared at the same time experts are predicting rates of domestic violence to increase, as families across the Mid West self-isolate against COVID-19.

Former senior of year Errol Warren Bartlett-Torr jailed

Former WA senior of the year — 86-year-old Errol Warren Bartlett-Torr — has been jailed for five years for sickening sex offences.

WA’s second regional COVID-19 clinic opens in Broome

The clinic will be open every day and treat anyone who has either a fever above 38 degrees or an acute respiratory infection, with the Kimberley region recording 12 cases of the virus.

WA News

COVID-19 CRISISFears mount as more remote health workers test positive

A doctor confirmed to have COVID-19 in WA’s Kimberley region town of Halls Creek was working while infectious with fears the health professional saw Aboriginal patients.

Border forceMore than 200 exemptions granted through WA’s border

Since WA’s hard border was introduced at midnight on Sunday, 235 people have been allowed into the State, according to Premier Mark McGowan.

Caitlyn Rintoul

Easter will be hot, hot, hot

Perth is in for a hot spell across the Easter weekend, with 30C-plus days tipped from Wednesday until Saturday, edging the city closer to a consecutive record dating back almost a century.

Claremont podcast: ‘Telstra Blue’

It’s the fibre that delayed WA’s trial of the century for more than four months and the fibre which the prosecution say was found in Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon’s hair - Telstra Blue.

Evil 8 dad after ‘beers and chat’ before abuse began

The father at the centre of the Evil 8 paedophile ring who sexually abused his daughter and pimped her out claimed he wanted to meet other men for “beers and a chat” before it “got out of control”.

COVID-19 TRAGEDYFamily denied chance to say goodbye to WA virus victim

A devastated family is demanding answers after a Bibra Lake grandfather was denied permission to leave hotel quarantine before his wife of almost 50 years had her life support switched off.

Syan Dougherty and Peter Law