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Westport based media productions and communications company, Maigh Eo Media has been shortlisted for a prestigious All-Ireland Marketing Award this week from the Marketing Institute of Ireland.

The theme of this year’s parade is Celebrating Westport, Past, Present and Future. The grand marshall has yet to be announced.

Westport Town Council has announced that the Westport Greenway project has been shortlisted for the 2011 LAMA Awards.

Work will commence in the next couple of weeks on an enterprise centre in Westport.

Housing grants as far as the end of March 2010 have been approved in the Westport Electoral area, housing officer Martin Keating told members at a meeting on Monday.

A holiday hostel for Westport has been granted planning permission by An Bord Pleanala.

This year’s Westport Arts Festival sets to light up the autumn evenings with several colourful events, from October 1 to 10. The festival’s big international event is the circus theatre of Cirque Trottola. This is a first-time Irish visit for the beautiful circus company which performs to sell-out shows all over Europe.

Westport will find out this month whether it has been successful in the National Smarter Travel Competition — the results were initially expected in June. The town is competing for funding of up to €50 million over five years which could potentially transform Westport into a world class Smarter Travel Town.

The imminent shut down of Skrettings Ireland fish feed factory in Westport, announced this week, is devasting news for the 22 workers and dozens of subsidiaries at the plant. The company, which will close by the end of the year, has been in Westport since 1989, with almost half the staff working there for more than 20 years. Latest live register figures recorded 1,846 people already signing on in Westport up to the end of August, and SIPTU shop steward Owen O’Malley, a worker at the plant since 1990, has described this latest job loss news as a massive blow.

The Cove Youth Cafe would like to thank those who supported the Westport’s Got Talent contest which took place during the music festival.