WORK on a two-way central business district streetscape development for the northern Strickland Street has begun.
 This follows the Denmark Shire Council overturning a plan (Rev4) to implement a one-way traffic development at a special meeting on May 17 due to regulations governing $149,000 in grant funds for the $420,000 project.
 The grant, obtained through the Great Southern Regional Grant Scheme Town Centre Enhancement Program, was due to expire on June 30. Read More ...

PRETTY Laced Wyandottes Lucy and Audrey and Orpington Pearl can be thankful they live in Denmark singer/songwriter Katie White’s back yard.
  The cherished trio was on show at the Small Property and Harvest Festival Expo on Sunday glowing with good health.
 As Katie says that’s unlike the chooks from so-called free-range commercial egg farms where producers sex day-old chicks then ‘mulch’ the roosters. Read More ...

AN energy-efficiency program targeting householders unable to pay power bills was axed in the State Budget last week putting 17 energy advisers out of a job, including Denmark-based Dorothy Redreau.
 She was one of 17 Green Skills trained advisers employed by Bayswater not-for-profit group Environment House run by Brenda Conochie. Read More ...

THE State Ombudsman will investigate alleged Education Department mismanagement over the lease of the Centre for Sustainable Living building.
 Denmark Education and Innovation Centre convenor Donald Clarke has written to the State Ombudsman, Chris Field, asking him to look into the Education Department’s handling of the lease. Read More ...

By ALISON BENNETT TAYLOR
CONTAMINATED recyclables from Denmark homes are being dumped in Albany landfill sites because local residents and visitors are putting their rubbish in the wrong bins.
 Denmark shire finance and administration director Garry Bird said the problem had been brought to the Shire’s attention by Cleanaway, which holds the contract for collecting recyclables and transporting them to the company’s Albany depot where they are sorted and on-sold. Read More ...

BY ALISON BENNETT TAYLOR
THE floor of the CWA hall is awash with toys and little tousled heads bob between the hands that work rhythmically knitting at the table.
 A thriving kitchen garden behind the hall awaits its winter harvest, when the produce will be shared and preserved by the different generations of women who now make up the Denmark collective. Read More ...

MORE than 300 people attended the Sunday Expo at the Centre for Sustainable Living winding up the week-long Small Property and Harvest festival.
 Organiser Craig Carter said the popularity of the festival had ensured it would become an annual event.
 Thirty stallholders with four wineries participated in the Expo where the CSL kitchen was busy selling wraps, samosas and cakes. Read More ...

TEACHER Claire Hard will swap the beaches of Denmark for the Siberian steppe when she flies to Russia on a Rotary exchange this month.
 Claire will travel with four other young professionals from the South-West on a Rotary Group Study Exchange, starting in far eastern Siberia. Read More ...

THE Great Southern Football League game was played under lights on Saturday night between Denmark and North Albany at McLean Park.
 The $240,000 lights were funded through the Sport and Recreation Department and Royalties for Regions and include 14 towers, each 30m high with four rows of lights. Read More ...

MORE than 20 people learned how to assemble a compost bay and make their own compost at the Denmark CWA Hall on Saturday, May 12.
 CWA members and keen organic gardeners Rosie Reddie and Sal Bellanger helped run the workshop to share the simple construction process with the wider community while adding to the kitchen garden’s infrastructure. Read More ...