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No 67 June 5, 2025 |
Some regular golfers. Photo supplied
Book review: "Gold" by Matt Murphy There are two things that everyone knows about the discovery of gold in Australia - the location of the first gold discovery and that Edward Hargraves was the discoverer. Wrong ... |  |
 | Cars and coffee It was the first Sunday in the month, so cars came from all around the place to gather in Oberon for the monthly Cars'n'Coffee gathering. |
The colours of Autumn It's that time of year when Autumn turns to Winter, so here's a collection of pictures of what Autumn means around Oberon to remind us of the last few months. |  |
 | Another winter driving hazard to worry about Now that winter is here, this is your annual reminder about freezing fog. This is a road hazard that rarely gets mentioned but which can be very serious (and frightening) when it happens. |
Let's learn lots Everyone was keeping busy in the schools around Oberon over the week, with lots of things going on. A normal week, really. |  |
 | Reading the paper from the back Football with variously shaped balls, horses with an enormous soccer ball. And even golf, with little white balls. Sports for all ages and ball shapes. |
Visitor statistics
June 5, 2025 in General News
Here is what has happened around this site over the last three months
| Month | Unique visitors | Most read page in the month |
| March | 2388 | March 2025 Oberon Council Meeting |
| April | 2158 | Here we go again - Council Vacancy |
| May | 2791 | Moron Alert |
"Unique visitors" counts IP addresses that have connected to the site at least once during the month. It doesn't include search engines, but even if it did Google and Bing (who index the site at least once a week) would only be counted as one visitor each. It is the equivalent of "Circulation" for print media.
Oberon Museum - open Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday
Finding missing people Duckmaloi resident Dan Pritchard has an unusual job - he locates missing people. What makes his work more unusual is that he is very specialised - he looks for and finds missing people who are in vehicles under water. |  |
 | Click go the needles, click, click, click Friday, May 23, saw the third installment of the project to produce rugs to keep the laps warm of people going to events at the Malachi Gilmore Hall. The project has followed the entire process, from bales of wool to finished rugs. |
Congratulations! Congratulations to Felicity Webb on receiving her Oberon Rotary Scholarship, for the Bachelor of Agricultural Business Management at CSU Wagga Wagga. Thank you to Oberon Rotary for sponsoring and supporting education. |  |
 | Check your smoke alarm Fire and Rescue NSW is partnering with emergency services in NSW and around Australia for Smoke Alarm Action Day to take place on Sunday June 1, 2025. This is an annual nationwide day of action where the community is asked to take action and test their smoke alarms. Households can scan the QR code and request a free home fire safety visit where Firefighters will come to your home, check alarms, and install new ones if needed. A working smoke alarm halves the risk of fatality in a home fire, yet alarmingly, nearly half of the homes damaged or destroyed by fire in NSW do not have a working smoke alarm. |
The three "Rs" - Readin', 'Ritin' and the Rest of the things So much goes on in the schools around Oberon that it's hard to keep up. |  |
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All the sport that fits Mixed results for Oberon's sportspersons over the weekend, with some winners, some (big) losers and everyone enjoying themselves anyway. The weather didn't help, but that's Oberon when winter is approaching. |
The Oberon Military Museum is open every Wednesday and Friday
from 12:30 to 4pm
and on Saturdays and public holidays from 10am to 4pm.
May 2025 Oberon Council Meeting Following the swearing in of new Councillor Robert Lee, there were several matters of interest discussed by Councillors. |  |
 | Oberon Council Mayor's Column This week's column from Oberon Mayor Andrew McKibbin can be seen here. |
Media release: Oberon's Heritage Hall Recognised at State Awards The Oberon area figured greatly in the 2025 NSW Heritage Awards, with the Malachi Gilmore Hall being a finalist. To add to the local content, architect (and bass player) Lian Wong from O'Connell was the lead architect on the winning entry, the Old Bega Hospital restoration. Congratulations to Lucy and Johnny East at the Malachi and Lian Wong on their success at the awards. |  |
 | Edith car boot sale The people of Edith picked the coldest day so far this year for their annual car boot sale, but the weather didn't stop people turning up. There was the usual variety of things on sale, some strange, some familiar from other sales ... |
Scammers! The lowest form of life If you are a member of any of Oberon's community Facebook groups you will have seen people offering data entry jobs with high pay and flexible working hours. These jobs do not exist. The people posting the pretend advertisements have invariably joined the group within the previous few days and it is reasonable to assume that they are using false names, with new names being invented as the originals get blocked by admins. As they didn't like people commenting about their lies, their posts now have comments disabled. The only purpose of these advertisements is to gather information to be used for other purposes. And do they care if you don't like what they do? See here for some interactions with the vermin. Note that one of them didn't care about being insulted and both had left Facebook after a couple of days. |
Public Notice - Water Meter Replacement Program Oberon Council will be replacing water meters that have reached the end of their useful life. |  |
 | The golf club has a history and Peter Dale is a big part of it Oberon Golf Club is a unique and special place. The stories of its creation and of the people who were there on the ground are just as special, and one of them is current Club Patron and life member - Peter Dale. |
Lotsa learning where the locals lurk All the schools around Oberon were busy again this week, with sport, science and generally getting on with the education process. |  |
 | Over there at the back of the paper ... Everyone except the golfers seemed to be playing out of town this weekend, but the results managed to get back. |
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