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No 43 November 14, 2024 |
Remembrance Day at Oberon High School
 | A gala day of tennis Oberon Tennis Club was full of excitement as it hosted a highly successful School Gala Day on Thursday, November 7. Over 100 students from four local schools (Oberon Public School, O'Connell Public School, St Joseph's Catholic School and Hampton Public School) gathered for a fun-filled day of tennis, learning and friendly competition. |
A busy week for schools Remembrance Day was important for Oberon's schools this week. There was also tennis, art, poetry, dancing, science and learning things. |  |
 | This week's Minute with Mayor McKibbin This week's column from Oberon Mayor Andrew McKibbin can be seen here. |
A report on the November 12 Oberon Council meeting will appear here next week. In the meantime you can read the State of the Shire report here.
O'Connell Artisans' Market O'Connell was not short of things to do and watch on Sunday,
November 3. There was the
first cricket match at the new Recreation Ground and right next
door was the annual Artisans' Market to raise funds for the
restoration and preservation of
St Thomas' Church and the surrounding buildings. |
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 | The Blue MUGS come to town Friday and Saturday, November 8 and 9, saw the Blue Mountains Ukulele Group (The Blue MUGS) put on a free concert and workshop at the Oberon Showground, with local ukulele players invited to come along and join in. |
A long walk with a putter Those were the words used by Greg Norman when defining happiness. Oberon's golfers were certainly happy with their long walks over the last week. |  |
 | 2023/2024 Audited Financial Statements Per Section 418 (3) of the Local Government Act, 1993, Oberon Council advises that the Ordinary Council Meeting held on Tuesday 12 November 2024 included the presentation of the audited Financial Statements and the Auditor's Reports for the year ending 30 June 2024. In accordance with Section 420 of the Local Government Act, 1993 (NSW), the public are invited to make submissions on the Audited Financial Statements until 4.00pm on Thursday, 21 November 2024. All submissions received must be forwarded to Council's auditor. Submissions can be made here or via email to council@oberon.nsw.gov.au |
A bit of bad news The operators of The Hub pizza bar have announced a temporary closure of the shop until further notice. As this follows the closure of Brazen Burgers in the same location it looks very likely that Oberon has lost another business. Oberon Matters will be following this story with a little bit of optimism (but not too much) |  |
 | A bit of change at the railway The regular Open Days at the Oberon Tarana Heritage Railway are no more. The OTHR committee had this to say: The Committee has decided, effective immediately, that as we push towards our goal of a heritage passenger service to Hazelgrove that our regular Open Days held on the 1st Saturday of each month will be suspended. There will be no Open Day tomorrow, November 2nd and onwards. This decision will free up volunteer time to facilitate the establishment of passenger operations. Oberon Matters will miss dropping in for morning tea after the Farmers' Market, but anything that can hasten the reopening of the line must be welcomed. |
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.
A night out at the flicks On Saturday, November 2, a good sized crowd with a good mix of ages was treated to a free screening of the film "Despicable Me 4" at the Black Springs Community Hall. |  |
 | All the things at all the schools It was another frenetic week at the schools in and around Oberon, with visits from sporting starts, excursions to Bathurst, making some robots, getting fit, dancing and even a billy cart race. Who said education can't be fun? |
Pink Skies of Oberon We're thrilled to announce the winners of the Pink Skies of Oberon photo competition, which is part of the Pink Up Oberon events this October. Thank you to everyone who participated and supported the McGrath Foundation during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. |  |
 | Oberon Sports Complex construction moves along Work keeps happening at the site of the new Sports Complex. |
Cricket comes back to O'Connell Cricket returned to O'Connell on Sunday, November 3, for the annual Fish River Cup match between O'Connell and Tarana. The match was the first to be played at the new Recreation Ground on the corner of Beaconsfield and O'Connell Roads. |  |
 | Too much sport really is almost enough As if building a new Sports Complex and playing a cricket match at the new oval in O'Connell weren't enough, sport broke out all over the place. There was golf of course, a big announcement from the Tigers and a Pony Club gymkhana. |
Visitor statistics
November 7, 2024 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 |
| August | 1519 | What's happening at (to?) the Oberon RSL Club? |
| September | 1469 | Meet the candidates |
| October | 1714 | Sad and sorry Sodwalls Road |
"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.
Oberon Men's Shed meets every Tuesday at the Showground
We don't know how propitious are the circumstances Life's tough in Oberon, but how much better off would we be living in a place with a lot more people and resources? Oberon Matters looked at a local government area with over 60 times the population to find any benefits. We don't know how lucky we are. |  |
 | Burraga Redfin Roundup October 26 and 27 saw 106 fisherpersons descend on the Burraga Dam for the inaugural Redfin Roundup to remove as many of these pasts from the dam as possible. |
Digital Marketing Seminar On Tuesday, October 22, there was a presentation at the Oberon Community Centre about the use of social media for marketing and representing businesses. Presenters were Josh Gordon from RDA Central West and Nalinda Ranaweera from Business HQ. |  |
 | Our Town, Our Future Business Forum judged a success About twenty people came along to hear some of Oberon's major business owners talk about Our Town, Our Future, which was the business forum hosted by the Oberon Business and Tourism Association, held on October 24. There were five guest speakers. |
Jenolan Caves Road closures Jenolan Caves Road at Hampton will be closed during the days between November 11 and 15. |  |
 | The school report card Education takes a lot of different forms, and you can see these all over Oberon's schools. A few different things were learnt about this week. |
A puzzle without an answer Golf is certainly a puzzle to those who don't play, and often also to those who do enjoy chasing that little ball around. |  |
Stories and articles for the most recent three weeks appear on the front page.
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see the Site History page.
We would like to acknowledge the Wiradjuri, Gundungurra and Dharug nations as the traditional custodians of the land on which we live and work and we pay our respect to Elders past, present and future
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