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Athlone councillors this week welcomed the establishment of Athlone Art & Heritage Ltd, a private limited company set up to manage the council’s artistic and heritage facilities including Athlone Castle and the new art gallery and artist studios.

Despite ending their contract with Airtricity in December, Athlone Town Council has moved to reassure members of the public that any public lighting which is not working will be fixed as soon as possible. Repairs to lighting are currently being undertaken on “an ad hoc basis” by local contractors, it emerged this week.

A suggestion that the council introduce a text messaging service to keep the public up to date with council issues was shot down this week as being too costly and difficult to organise.

An accident on the N6 Athlone bypass yesterday, which resulted in several hours of traffic delays, topped off a week in which concerns were raised over ongoing upgrade works on the dual carriageway.

Westmeath County Council is calling on local community groups to get their thinking caps on in a bid to prevent the courthouse in Moate from descending into dereliction.

Improvements in the Willow Park area of Athlone are coming along well, councillors were told at this months’s town council meeting, in reply to two separate queries.

Salt shortages in Westmeath may be a thing of the past next year, if an appeal to the National Roads Authority (NRA) for an extra storage facility in Athlone is successful, it was revealed at the first Athlone Town Council meeting of the year, held earlier this week.

“Positive in words but not in marks” was how town clerk John Walsh described this year’s Athlone Tidy Towns adjudication report, which saw the town gain just one point over the previous year’s score, despite a more encouraging report.

To pay for a road that has been 10 years in the planning, Westmeath County Council has set a price of €82,500 per hectare on future development levies in Athlone, a figure that equates to just €835 per each quarter acre site.

A survey of the Annaghgorta bog area is to be carried out by Westmeath County Council in the coming weeks, in the hope of addressing the ongoing problem of illegal dumping in the area.