Rumpoles Brasserie was for many years a great restaurant inside Campbelltown CBD popular watering hole Court Tavern. It’s named after its location, across the road from Campbelltown Local Court. It served the best food across South Western Sydney thanks to the vision of then owner Boris Brticevic (no relation toRead more »
The ePetition to Save the Hurlstone Farm has closed for signatures and been presented in the Legislative Assembly by State MP for Macquarie Fields Anoulack Chanthivong. On it were 1,132 signatures. It is now with the NSW Government, which may or may not respond. The ePetition text said, in part:Read more »
Campbelltown City Council has to do something to help the members of the Campbelltown Bowling Club. Once upon a time the old bowlers could park their cars right next to the first bowling green in Howe Street, that little strip from Browne Street to the top of Mawson Park. HoweRead more »
A drive-in cinema could still be on the cards, even though just one application was received when Campbelltown Council advertised for expressions of interest in September. Time could be the enemy though, both because of the snail like progress of the process and with a vaccine for Covid-19 now notRead more »
It’s that time of the year when council annual reports and financial statements are made public. The law requires councils to report annually how much is earned by general managers, senior staff and councillors. Campbelltown Council’s annual report for the 2019-2020 financial period says the total remuneration packages (including salary,Read more »
As every man and his dog knows, Queen Street has been in the doldrums these past five years. For Lease signs are everywhere and the worse thing so far, apart from council neglect, has been that anyone with respiratory problems must dread walking the two sections from Cordeuax Street inRead more »
Former Campbelltown mayor Russell Matheson was among the mourners at the funeral of John McLaughlin last week, who included current mayor George Brticevic – in his fifth year in the big chair. Matheson, who also served five terms as mayor, now sits on the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. He was appointedRead more »
Last week’s feature on Campbelltown’s Mr AFL, John McLaughlin, was extremely popular with our readers. We would never have known it, but one of those readers must have been AFL boss Gillon McLachlan. We don’t know much about him, but do hear AFL people say he’s a very nice humanRead more »
The Labor team after the 2016 council elections. After winning a byelection a few months later they had an absolute majority. Next Tuesday, September 1, Campbelltown Council will hold elections for mayor and deputy mayor. There is no question that the mayor for the past four years, George Brticevic, willRead more »
No names, no pack drill but you read it here first: a noisy anti curfew campaign is about to engulf the Western Sydney Airport at Badgerys Creek. It has been smooth sailing for years now with not a bad word said by anyone about the airport, which is fast becomingRead more »
Maybe the genius who allowed this scene to occur at Minto Marketplace didn’t get the memo about the pandemic. But it beggars belief that stalls were allowed to be set up which ended up creating a very narrow path for everyone to go through as they moved from one partRead more »
It’s now official that love them or hate them we’re going to have to wait a year to elect new councils. In a raft of announcements affecting local government in NSW, the main one is that the next council elections will be held on September 4, 2021. However, those electedRead more »
