Local News
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 | 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.
25 Feb 10 | Oberon High School's trainees are quick to recommend their school-based traineeships to anyone.
25 Feb 10 | Minister for Water Phil Costa announced $1.25 million in funding for a storm water harvesting project for use in Oberon’s timber industry during his visit to the region last week.
11 Feb 10 | The Oberon and Villages Summer Festival begins this weekend, celebrating the abundance and diversity of Oberon during our warm luscious summer months.
11 Feb 10 | The Oberon Hospital Auxiliary raised a whopping $32,000 for the Oberon Hospital in 2009, and are already rearing to make 2010 another successful year.
11 Feb 10 | THE Sydney Catchment Authority (SCA) may soon begin utilising Oberon Dam to replenish water supplies in the Blue Mountains.
11 Feb 10 | IN the depth of a European winter Private Mitchell Wright is carrying out a sombre duty but one that fills him with pride.
11 Feb 10 | Oberon Council is among 127 across the state which will receive a NSW Government grant of up to $1000to help organise local community events for International Women’s Day.
11 Feb 10 | It is a wonder that this year’s freshly announced Oberon Showgirl Sarah Daniel had the time to attend the interview with her very busy and quite inspiring activities and studies, but she certainly is an impressive and promising ambassador for Oberon.
04 Feb 10 | A bi-plane landed in Oberon on Doust's field on March 8, 1935. One of two co-pilots was Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.
04 Feb 10 | A very important meeting has been arranged for February 15 with New South Wales Minister for Water the Hon Phillip Costa.
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