A giant leap for civic unity

Yesterday, the Blairgowrie public swimming pool opened for spring for the first time in four years.

- KEVIN RITCHIE

It hasn't been opened since just after the pandemic, when it was already starting to go downhill very quickly.

Over the next four years the decay would render the pool and the change rooms unusable. Spring day would come and go each year, only for it to remain closed – until a group of concerned citizens; ratepayers, local politicians and civil servants found a way to work together to bring this important public facility back from the brink.