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Athlone Chamber and Athlone Town Council have joined forces this year in an effort to encourage people to ‘shop local’ this Christmas.

Preliminary work is to start today [Friday] on the Olympic standard indoor sports arena at AIT, which is expected to cost in the region of €10.5 million.

Hundreds of homes in Athlone were left without water on Wednesday and Thursday this week as the council worked to fix burst watermains in the Retreat and Pearse Street areas.

For the second time in three years Snap Printing Athlone has been selected as a finalist at the National Print Awards 2010. The Oscars style event is being held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Dublin on November 26 and will see the very best print companies in Ireland vying for the top awards.

JobFit, a new local initiative to support people to upskill or retrain and get a job or move on to further education or training, was officially launched yesterday, Thursday October 28 at a celebration event in the JobFit centre by Mayor of Athlone Town Council, Sheila Buckley Byrne.

Almost two thirds of the housing loans owed to Athlone Town Council are in arrears, giving it one of the highest rates of debt in the country when it comes to housing loan repayments.

After four visits to the District Court, three to the High Court, and with legal bills approaching €75,000, Athlone Town Council will find out next Friday (October 15) in the Supreme Court whether its eviction of Christine Quinn (36), formerly of 27, Brawney Square, Athlone for anti-social behaviour, will be ultimately upheld.

Commercial rates are set to be debated next Monday at the October meeting of Athlone Town Council following a motion put forward by Cllr Alan Shaw in September.

Chairman of Athlone Tidy Towns, John Butler, has reacted angrily to Athlone’s poor performance in the latest Irish Businesses Against Litter (IBAL) rankings, saying the report is a “cynical exercise” which fails to take into account the work done by Tidy Towns over the summer months.

Two plans adopted this week should lead to much safer driving around Athlone, after traffic calming for Glasson village and a newly designed junction for Two Mile/Cloghanboy were green-lighted by Westmeath County Council.