SINGLETON is at the top of its game when it comes to community spirit.

Our town was the winner of the Overall Tidy Towns Award for category E for towns with populations of 10,001 and 25,000.

King Street Public School was the winner of the schools environment award.

Singleton was also the winner of the highly competitive Heritage Branch Cultural Award for the Sacred Spaces Sisters of Mercy Convent Singleton.

It was also highly commended in the Litter Reduction Award for the Adopt A Spot: Adopt a Road initiative.

Winners of each category compete for the overall State title with Singleton narrowly missing out on the top title to Lockhart, by a whisker.

Tidy Towns chairperson Lyn MacBain said winning one category was reward enough but to do so well in everything the town had entered and then to take out the category award was just exceptional.

“We are all still on a high,” Mrs MacBain said.

Mrs MacBain said it was difficult not to feel incredible community pride in Singleton while at the awards in Tamworth at the weekend.

“The judge, Brian McKellar, couldn’t praise Singleton enough and kept remarking on how strong the community spirit is here,” Mrs MacBain said.

“He was particularly impressed with the students at King Street Public School and teacher Margaret Beal thinks she knows why.

“When the judge was at the school he was asking many questions and the children were giving all the answers, they knew exactly what was going on and why,” Mrs Beale said.

The school’s environmental program is a work in progress.

Other category winners in the Hunter were Cessnock, Laguna, Maitland and Kurri.