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There are Community News stories in the archives.
Pieces about things happening in and around Oberon that involve or are of interest to the whole area.
Your Federal Member's Community Update Your community update from the Federal Member for Calare, Andrew Gee MP, can be seen here. |  |
Thanks for the donations The Oberon Garden club have announced two donations to local recipients. $10,000 goes to the Oberon Hospital Auxiliary and $1,000 to Oberon Museum. The money was raised from entry fees at the Club's Autumn Open Garden Festival. Thanks and congratulations. |
 | Community Event: Suicide Prevention, Depression and Anxiety Suicide is a very worrying thing, and Oberon Men's Shed in conjunction with the Australian Men's Shed Association and the charity Talk to Me, Bro will be hosting a community meeting in November to consider and reflect on the issue. |
New owners for Oberon's taxi When Ashdeep Nash brought a taxi service to Oberon last year it was very welcome. Ashdeep is moving interstate and NSW laws require that taxi owners live in this state so there was a possibility that Oberon would lose this valuable resource. But the taxi has new owners and will be staying in town. |  |
 | Time catches up with St Dymphna's Church in Burraga Not just time but a reducing population and smaller congregations have led to the closure of St Dymphna's Catholic church in Burraga. Unfortunately this sort of thing seems inevitable for small towns and villages where the cost of upkeep means that some things just can't be justified any more. The final Mass was conducted on Saturday, July 18, by Bishop Michael McKenna. |
Oberon Council Mayor's Column This fortnight's column from Oberon Mayor Andrew McKibbin can be seen here. |  |
Black Springs Community Association The Black Springs Community Association AGM results are in with the new elected committee being:
Congratulations to all new committee members. We would like to extend a big thank you to the outgoing committee members for all their work and effort put in over the past year. Here's to another great year. |
 | Winter Seasonal Markets at Edith It was definitely wintery at Edith for the Winter Seasonal Markets but that didn't stop a good crowd turning up to sample some local products and produce. Oberon Matters put on the winter woolies and wandered around pointing the camera at things. |
The Carers' Retreat is finally open It's taken two years from the idea to the reality, but the Carers' Retreat at the Oberon hospital is finally here, with the official opening happening on July 7. |  |
 | There was movement at the station ... The train station, that is. Work is proceeding nicely on the construction of the station at Hazlegrove on the Oberon Tarana Heritage Railway. Getting the line running again is a slow process but that's the sort of thing that happens when the workers on the ground are volunteers and the professionals are in the bureaucracy, shuffling paper from one in-tray to the next. And often back again for another round of rule checking and obfuscation. The railway will run again one day but people have given up on predicting when because predictions have a way of coming up against train loads of red tape. |
Oberon Council Mayor's Column This fortnight's column from Oberon Mayor Andrew McKibbin can be seen here. | |
