Local News
12 Mar 10 | SHOPPERS will have to wait another two years before Aldi is officially in town.
12 Mar 10 | He is a batting legend and Singleton came out in force to farewell one of the towns greatest cricketers.
Gordon Whatham has been in the game for over 50 years and has decided to hang up his pads for the last time.
Sarah Lee spoke to him on Sunday at his last match.
12 Mar 10 | KIRKTON Public School looked more like the set of a Dr Seuss film on Wednesday with its students bearing a striking and almost uncanny resemblance to some of its characters.
12 Mar 10 | THE proposed Ravensworth $1.2 billion ‘super pit' is on public exhibition until March 29 at Singleton Council Chambers.
12 Mar 10 | THE historic Neotsfield Homestead, the once glorious home of the pioneering Dangar family, is open to the public on St Patrick’s Day.
12 Mar 10 | GLEN Shade is a nuclear veteran.
A term not often heard and one the Australian Government has ultimately forgotten.
12 Mar 10 | COUNCILLORS Lyn MacBain, Maxine Smith and Ruth Rogers were “Women Making a Splash in Local Government” in Moree last weekend at the 57th annual conference of the Australian Local Government’s Women’s Association.
12 Mar 10 | THE Jerrys Plains community is looking forward and planning a strong future once the coal mines are gone.
A meeting at the local hall on Monday night saw a good roll-up of people that has led to the revival of the Jerrys Plains and District Progress Association.
09 Mar 10 | Peter Heffernan just loves Countryfest. He first initiated the local show as a money maker for the local NAA and the Singleton Showground. With 18 days to go until this year’s event he chatted to Rachel Oldknow about what’s new and what events should not be missed.
09 Mar 10 | THE Rudd Government’s National Health and Hospitals Network has caused concern among the Singleton community.
09 Mar 10 | SIX truckloads of rubbish was collected in and around Singleton in this year’s Clean Up Australia Day campaign.
09 Mar 10 | CLOSURE of Wallaby Scrub Road remains priority for Coal & Allied in its plans to extend its Warkworth mining operations.
09 Mar 10 | THREE major projects will take place in Singleton with the announcement of $147,000 in Federal funding.
Colleen Gale Children’s Services, Singleton Netball Courts and the new Visitor Information Centre have been allocated funding under round two of the Regional and Local Community Infrastructure Program (RLCIP).
Federal member for Hunter Joel Fitzgibbon made the announcement on Thursday afternoon.
09 Mar 10 | SINGLETON junior rugby league is now at home in a bigger, more practical and much prettier premises with the opening of the Cook Park amenities building last week.
09 Mar 10 | SINGLETON is celebrating news of its first Oscar winner.
Former Singleton High student Martin Tlaskal (pictured far left) has been awarded the famed statue for excellence in film technology.
05 Mar 10 | THE Hunter Valley rail network is on track for meeting forecast coal demands with the official opening of the overbridges on the Golden Highway and Range Road this week.
05 Mar 10 | For as long as she can remember Bronwyn Dunston has been involved with the Country Women’s Association
following in the footsteps of her grandmother and her mother. She has been the driver, quite literally, behind the Singleton CWA’s drought runs. She spoke to Kate Morris about an evolving CWA.
05 Mar 10 | SINGLETON youngsters will don extra attire today with gloves a must for Clean Up Australia Day’s school clean up.
05 Mar 10 | THE residents of Camberwell village are wondering just how much more coal mining they can bear, with the once idyllic rural village becoming a noisy dust bowl as coal mines close in around them.
05 Mar 10 | SINGLETON may have a shorter supply of ambulance officers if a new proposal by the New South Wales Ambulance Service is approved
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