04 Mar 10 | THIS happy group celebrated Oberon Women’s Bowlers’ 45th birthday in style at the RSL Club last Wednesday.
They dressed up to the nines in new uniforms and gathered around a number 45 represented with bowling balls on the green to mark the special milestone.
04 Mar 10 | OBERON women golfers held an enjoyable Canadian 2 Stroke on February 24 as a fundraiser for the Breast Cancer Appeal.
04 Mar 10 | THE Bathurst Tennis Centre played host to the best under 12s players NSW has to offer over the weekend as girls and boys teams contested the Jan O'Neill and Tony Roche cups respectively.
04 Mar 10 | OPEN, novice, ladies, junior and juvenile drafts attracted 950 entrants – both local and from across the state – to the Oberon Campdraft last weekend.
04 Mar 10 | The amazing popularity of the Six Foot Track Marathon – the iconic 45 kilometre trail race from Katoomba to Jenolan Caves – has created a nightmare for organisers of this year’s event.
04 Mar 10 | March is Rotary’s Bowelscan month. Australia has the world’s highest incidence of bowel cancer – 1 in 12 men and women will be diagnosed with bowel cancer by the age 85.
04 Mar 10 | Wow! Oberon is simply the place to be! Great weather and wonderful entertainment made the 110th Oberon Show and Highland Steam and Vintage Fair highly successful.
04 Mar 10 | Only a few days out from Clean Up Australia Day, it appears some locals are not too concerned about keeping our country or even our local area beautiful.
04 Mar 10 | Some Oberon locals are not relying on the hopes for rain to restore their water supply, and are looking to alternative measures to secure a source of permanant water for their households.
04 Mar 10 | General manager of Oberon Council, Bruce Fitzpatrick, believes that the council's evidence is overwhelming in their case with 11 other councils who are seeking to sue the Local Government Financial Services over losses of $18.5 million in investments of council workers’ superannuation funds.
04 Mar 10 | Like many local farmers and graziers, Oberon landholders Neville and Lesley Kurtz are fed up with noxious weeds that invade their land from the roadways.
It’s true many weeds considered noxious in this area – nodding thistle, serrated tussock and blackberries – tend to start on properties and in forestry and gradually make their way onto roads.
25 Feb 10 | OBERON Women’s Golf Club held a par event for trophies donated by Vicki Keen and the third and final round of the Arrow Family Trophy on February 17.
25 Feb 10 | UNLESS you can catch Old Tom – a whopping ancient trout that apparently lives in Oberon Dam and has a reputation much like the Loch Ness Monster – I'm guessing you have no chance of beating this fish record.
25 Feb 10 | After months of travelling back and forth to Sydney for training talented Oberon halfback Billy Kitt is certainly making his mark.
25 Feb 10 | Oberon Netball Club will hold its final registration this Saturday, February 27 from 10am to noon in front of Mawhoods IGA.
25 Feb 10 | Players are still urgently needed to fill positions in the Oberon Tigers and junior league football teams for 2010.
25 Feb 10 | The famous Jesus – All About Life racing ute got more bumps and bruises at Oberon High School this week than on the race track with the hordes of students clambering in keen to get V8 super car driver Andrew Fisher's autograph.
25 Feb 10 | The second Highlands Steam and Vintage Fair presented last weekend exceeded organisers’ expectations.
25 Feb 10 | TWO days of perfect weather and a string of new attractions ensured the Oberon Show exceeded all expectations at the weekend.
25 Feb 10 | WHAT a great weekend In my case, spent at the Antique and Vintage Steam Fair, which was awesome.