Sustainable Living Tasmania (SLT) has cleaned up the EPA Sustainability Award (Community) for their Energised Learning program in the 2024 Tasmanian Community Achievement Awards. Snug resident and SLT Principal Sustainability Consultant Todd Houstein accepted the award on Friday, October 18. The award-winning Energised Learning program was inspired by Todd's encounter with a group of students at...

A number of Blackmans Bay community members conducted the first known bat survey of the area on Saturday, October 5 with help from expert and South Hobart resident Dr Lisa Cawthen.Under Dr Cawthen's guidance the Eucalyptus amygdalina along Bluett's Hill, Burwood Drive was surveyed with multiple sonar sensing devices. "Kids and parents alike gripped the buzzing devices and eyes shot up to the...

Snug Retirement Village resident Stanley Kilpatrick celebrated his 100th birthday this weekend on Sunday, October 20.Born in Port Ballintrae in Northern Ireland, Stanley joined the scouts at a young age which would remain a keen hobby of his throughout his life when he moved to Tasmania and got involved with the Blackmans Bay Scouts.Stanley's biggest passion, however, is sailing, and it was the...

Kingston resident and emerging theatre creative Chris Seville debuted as a playwright and director in this year's OneFest, an annual weekend festival of plays under 30 minutes performed in Hobart's Playhouse Theatre. There were a total of 19 plays performed across the two-day festival, with a range of genres, set designs and actors on stage. Whilst most of the theatre creatives involved operate...

A new reconciliation group has been formed in Kingborough, with the Kingborough Reconciliation Action Group (KRAG) holding its first meeting yesterday on Monday, October 14 at the Salty Dog Hotel, Kingston Beach.KRAG is part of Reconciliation Tasmania's Local Action Networks, bringing together people interested in advancing reconciliation by nurturing knowledge, awareness, empathy and respect...