The Kettering Community Association is seeking support from residents to lobby DIER to address problems with the sewerage plant installed last year.  The project, part of an $8.0m commitment to upgrade Ferry Road, cost the state government in the order of $1.4m.  Construction was completed in August last year but the plant is still not operational.  To read the KCA notice issued to residents click here.

Kingborough Council has developed a new Rates and Charges Policy and is seeking community comment. Submissions should be delivered to the General Manager, Kingborough Council Civic Centre, 15 Channel Highway, Kingston 7050 by Friday, 6 July 2012.

The policy is available from the Civic Centre, by contacting Customer Services on (03) 6211 8200, or can be downloaded here.

The Kettering Oval Track is out of commission.  Recent heavy rains have washed away a significant amount of gravel and made sections of the track unsafe.

Council has commenced work on a new footpath to run from Saddle Road to Selby Road. 

The Autumn 2012 edition of the Heart Foundation Walking Newsletter features the Kettering Walking group.  They get a mention in the editorial and their hike to Cloudy Bay  features in the body of the newsletter.  Not bad recognition when you consider that there are 1,200 Heart Foundation walking groups around the country. 

Most people would be well aware of  Tasmania's iconic and challenging Three Peaks Race.  Well did you know that the Kettering Yacht Club has previously conducted a Three Pubs Race.  The Channel Discovery Race held  this morning as a pre-cursor to the Club's Annual award dinner is described on their website as "a mild re-enactment of the traditional KYC Three Pubs Race.  A runner will be needed to go ashore at (probably) the Gordon Jetty, Peppermint Bay and finally up to the KYC Club rooms and drink a beer at each point".  Unfortunately, entries were already closed at the time of going to press.

A letter jointly signed by Kettering Walkers, Kettering Community Association and Friends of Kettering has been sent to Council to enlist their support to have the speed limit on the Channel Highway through Kettering reduced to 50 Km/h.  A request to DIER last year was knocked back.  If it's good enough for Hobart . . .

The Coningham and Lower Snug Community Association now have an on-line presence.

The Kettering Community Association is seeking a grant from the Tasmanian Community Fund to construct a new bridge over the creek which separates the Kettering Oval from the Oyster Cove Marina.  Last year KCA was successful in seeking a grant from Kingborough Council to fund an upgrade to the Kettering Oval walking track.  The proposed new bridge will allow the removal of the ageing timber structure installed some twenty years ago by Kettering volunteers.  It will link the newly upgraded Oval Track with developments at the Oyster Cove Marina  thereby providing safe pedestrian access through to Ferry Road.  Initial applications for the grant close on 4 April with a shortlist expected to be published in May this year.

Minister for Infrastructure, David O'Byrne, visited Kettering this morning.  He was responding to an invitation by Kettering Heart Foundation Walking Group co-ordinator, Elspeth Haughie, to view first-hand the lack of safe pedestrian access along the Channel Highway at Kettering.