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Issue 412 is out: Thursday 16 October (sample)

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Council, schools, roads and planning in Springfield and the valley villages.

What the local desk covers

If the council decides it, the valley pays for it or the school run changes because of it, the local desk covers it.

  • Council and planning meetings, every one
  • Schools, buses, roads and the river
  • The people behind the news, in their own words

Desk editor: Maya Lindqvist (sample). In this week’s issue: pages 3 to 6.

A wood-panelled town hall council chamber under a skylight
Two bridges over a calm river in autumn, the town on the far bank

Two bridges, one vote

The old Wend bridge carries 9,000 crossings a day and needs $4.2 million of repairs. A new bridge 400 metres downstream would cost $7.8 million and close the old one to cars (sample figures).

We walked both routes with a wheelchair user, a delivery driver and the head of the primary school on the far bank. This week’s issue sets out what each plan means for them, what the council has promised and what it has not.

By Maya Lindqvist. Photographs by Sam Okoro (sample). In print on pages 4 to 6.

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Issue 412 is out: Thursday 16 October (sample)

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