You can’t make a silk purse from a sow’s ear, say critics of announcements by Liberal MPs to deliver a lot more car parking spots at Leppington and Edmondson park stations than was promised at the start of the year. First cab off the rank was Holsworthy MP Melanie Gibbons, who used her Facebook page… Read more »
It’s all hush hush, like a lot of issues at Campbelltown Council these days, but we can tell you that you won’t have to change what you call our wonderful sports stadium. As predicted and reported in this column earlier this year, the expressions of interest process to find someone to pay mega bucks for… Read more »
You could say the last Campbelltown Council meeting of the year on Tuesday night had everything and a little bit more. It started with a bang when the Mayor, George Brticevic, ordered the removal of a man in the public gallery who shouted his views during discussion of a domestic violence item on the agenda…. Read more »
Brett Atkins doesn’t wear a super hero uniform, but if he did, it would probably say something like: I’m 4 Macarthur. That’s because apart from his day job with Nikon, everything else he does in his life is all about Camden and Campbelltown, and a bit of Wollondilly thrown in for good measure. I hope… Read more »
In a backflip of epic proportions, the State Government has today announced that Hurlstone Agricultural High School will stay in Glenfield after all. The reversal comes four years almost to the day since the government revealed plans to relocate Campbelltown’s iconic school lock, stock and barrel to a Western Sydney University site in the Hawkesbury…. Read more »
A lot of your money has been spent on consultants over the past few years asking them to come up with ideas to help make Campbelltown great. But the best ideas are free, and this one from Councillor Warren Morrison is a beauty. If he had his way, every piece of history in town –… Read more »
This time 12 months ago our dam levels were at 64 percent capacity. Today they’re at 45 percent, which pretty much explains why level 2 watering restrictions come into play from tomorrow, December 10. It also explains why we’re all slowly changing our habits when it comes to using water. When the dams are full… Read more »
It was ever so close – a win by a very narrow margin – but it was one the Campbelltown Camden Ghosts desperately needed to help get their season back on track. But they did it the hard way, allowing Manly Warringah to get within five runs of victory. When the Ghosts took the last… Read more »
We’re in the midst of a prolonged drought and our dam levels are rapidly plummeting, but if we can embrace the re-use of grey water we’ll get through it all according to a Campbelltown councillor. Warren Morrison, who wants Campbelltown Council to look at the feasibility of the re-use of grey water, believes it could… Read more »
For three years Liberal Party councillor George Greiss has had to endure empty seats around him in the Campbelltown council chamber. But it looks like he won’t be a solitary man for much longer. It’s all come out of the blue because nobody expected his colleague Ted Rowell to return to council after going on… Read more »
Trevar Langlands and Colleen Parker after receiving life membershipsfrom the Fellowship of Australian Writers. When he’s not in front of a microphone at Macarthur community radio station 100.3FM, Trevar Langlands is busy running the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW). He is currently the NSW president of FAW – the 21st time he has stepped… Read more »
Commuter car parking campaigner Michael Andjelkovic says extending the South West rail line to the new airport at Badgerys Creek as soon as possible may deliver a longer term solution for the entire region. “It’s not just Edmondson Park and Leppington stations that have car parking deficits – other stations in the Liverpool and Macarthur… Read more »
