Students chalking up our pavements for a good cause

As 2024 Youth Week kicks off, students have been chalking up pavements around Campbelltown to save their all ages music festival, Scream It Out, going the way of recent music festival cancellations. Have you seen the Scream It Out, All …

Richo says Wests Tigers move to south west ‘full steam ahead’

In Campbelltown today for the opening of a new club office in Blaxland Road, current Wests Tigers chief executive officer Shane Richardson has confirmed that the move to the South West is real and is happening fast. “We are going …

Big South West contingent heads to ’24 academy games

One of the largest South West Sydney Academy of Sport contingents will head to Wagga Wagga to compete in the 2024 annual Regional Academy Games during April 12-14. One athlete looking forward to the Games is Bingara Gorge netballer Gabriella …

$3.2m in assets frozen, $4m seized from Harrington Park syndicate

The Organised Crime Squad and NSW Crime Commission have charged three men and seized $4 million in assets believed to be proceeds of crime under Strike Force Lavington. Strike Force Lavington is a joint investigation targeting a high-profile drug syndicate …

Now it’s the getting of wisdom of Benji Marshall the coach

Benji Marshall will be in Campbelltown tomorrow, but it won’t just be for training for the round six match with St George Illawarra on Sunday. At 10am in the morning he will join club CEO Shane Richardson and local VIPs …

Roads minister very, very happy with link road progress

Stage one work on one of the most important link roads built in Macarthur is almost 80 percent complete. But even more importantly, the design work for the final stage of the Spring Farm Parkway is well under way too. …

When you see it for real, Uluru is pure magic

It was almost disconcerting that the great red rock in the middle of the Western Desert just kept disappearing from view. On a bus tour to Ayers Rock or Uluru as we must all call it now, I lost count …

Is bid to change ward system set for another heroic failure…

Over the past 50 years there have been a few attempts to introduce a multiple ward system in Campbelltown. None got past first base. Campbelltown is one of the few councils with a single ward system, however a big increase …

Raining centenarians at Whiddon’s Glenfield aged care facility

Not one but two centenarians at Whiddon’s Easton Park aged care facility at Glenfield celebrated their birthdays in April. Joan Kingston turned 100 on April 6, while the day before Patricia Spring turned 101. She has been a resident at …

Elective surgery wait list slashed at Liverpool Hospital

There’s been an amazing 100 percent reduction in the elective surgery wait list at Liverpool Hospital, which now sits at zero. This milestone local achievement is part of the 85 percent slash in NSW’s overdue planned surgery wait list since …

Sports aware program focuses on drugs and alcohol

Following the overwhelming success of the pilot last year, Youth Solutions and West Group Macarthur are continuing their partnership for the Sports Aware program again in 2024. The health promotion project focuses on engaging with young sportspeople and their supporters …

WomenCan Team Teal campaign winner thanks to Club Menangle

The 2024 WomenCan Team Teal campaign has officially drawn to a close after raising $4,600 over the six week period. Across the 12 race meetings held at their harness racing venue, Club Menangle donated $200 for every win that was …