2025 - Community News - Page 5

Media release: Oberon's Heritage Hall Recognised at State Awards
May 22, 2025 in Community, Business and Entertainment

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.
See the Malachi's media release here

Edith car boot sale
May 22, 2025 in Community

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 ...
See some photos from the day here

Scammers! The lowest form of life
May 22, 2025 in Community and Opinion

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.

"See You Later Mum" - a play playing on your heartstrings
May 15, 2025 in Community and Entertainment

Mother's Day would be the perfect time to sit down and watch a play about the relationships between mothers, their children and grandchildren. This Mother's Day, Sunday, May 11, gave everyone in Oberon an opportunity to see a performance of "See You Later Mum"
See more about the play here

More raffle winners
May 15, 2025 in Community

There always seems to be at least one raffle being sold somewhere along the Oberon Street shopping precinct, but there's one you should look out for every Friday outside IGA.

It's the fundraiser for the Oberon Men's Shed, and the prizes are very worthwhile. Prizes vary from raffle to raffle, and can include trailer loads of wood as well as vouchers for groceries or products from other stores. The raffles are drawn when they are fully subscribed.

The proceeds of these raffles will help to ensure the future of the Men's Shed. Definitely a worthy cause. And you might even win something.
See the results of the latest raffle here

Oberon's New Living Treasures
May 15, 2025 in Community and People

A community is made up of the people in it and their stories. If you walk through Oberon Common you can see a wall of images of Oberon's Treasures - people who helped make the history of Oberon. But those treasures were declared many years ago, so the Oberon Museum has embarked on a project to capture the stories of current living Treasures.
See the story of the new Treasures here

Media release: Oberon's water supply
May 8, 2025 in Community

If you have noticed your tap water has a funny taste recently, there's nothing unhealthy going on, just a natural and occasional problem. Oberon Council have issued this media release to explain what's happening.
See the media release here

A new record. $69,000!!!
June 26, 2025 in Community and Sport

This year's Can Assist auction put on by Oberon's league teams raised a record $69,000 for the charity that provides help for local people with cancer and their families.
See some pictures from the night here

A modest proposal
June 26, 2025 in Community
Updated October 9, 2025

Oberon seems to be running out of street festivals, but a suggestion has been made for something that doesn't require the closing of any roads. The idea is to have a busking festival, with musicians performing in front of the shops on Oberon Street. These events happen all over NSW, so why not here too? It's early days in the planning and there's a lot of work to be done before a date can be announced (some time in October seems likely). There will be costs associated (payments to performers, Council fees, ...) so we will be looking for sponsors. If you think such a festival is a good idea (or even a bad idea) or would like to help or be a sponsor, please with your comments.

Update: Unfortunately bureaucracy, red tape and lack of time thwarted the idea. Maybe next year.

Picnic in the Park
May 1, 2025 in Community

The End Of Year Spectacular for 2024 had to be cancelled because of atrocious weather, and the substitute was a community picnic at the Oberon Common on Saturday, April 26 this year.
See some photos from the picnic here

What is Oberon Men's Shed Inc all about?
May 1, 2025 in Community and Opinion

Dave McMurray tells us a little bit about the history of the Oberon Men's Shed and why it is an important part of and asset for the Oberon community.
See Dave's story here

Easter around Oberon
April 24, 2025 in Community

Last year there was so much going on around Oberon over the Easter weekend that it was a bit hard to keep up, but things were a bit more relaxed in 2025. Oberon Matters had a look at some of the events and happenings over the four days.
See the happenings here

A fun day in the park
April 24, 2025 in Community

It's school holidays but that doesn't mean that there's nothing to do. Creative Community Concepts were back in town on Tuesday, April 22, with an afternoon of fun at the Oberon Recreation Ground.
See some photos of the day here

April 2025 Oberon Council Meeting
April 24, 2025 in Community
Updated May 20, 2025

Much of the April Council meeting was taken up with suggested modifications and additions to Council policies, with many things going out for public comment.
See more here

Autumn Garden Showcase
April17, 2025 in Community

The weekend of April 12 and 13 saw hundreds of people visiting some of Oberon's wonderful gardens. And they didn't all come from around here - many visitors travelled a long way because they were aware of the town's reputation for having nice things to look at. And with perfect weather there was absolutely no disappointment.
See some photos of the gardens here

An author at the library
April 17, 2025 in Community

Thursday, April 10, saw about twenty people gather at the Oberon Library for a talk by Orange author Leesa Ronald. Leesa has just had her first novel, "Special Delivery", published and she was there as part of a very busy promotion tour to tell us how the book came about.
See some more about the event here

Latin Music and Drumming
April 10, 2025 in Community and Entertainment

On Friday, March 28, local drummers and a group of students from St Joseph's Catholic School had a chance try out their drumming skills at a workshop conducted by members of Sydney bands Caribé and ALLY at the Malachi Gilmore Hall.
See some photos from the day here

Cars and Coffee
April 10, 2025 in Community

Over 40 cars turned up at Oberon Common on the morning of Sunday, April 6, for the monthly Cars and Coffee meeting.
You can see some of the glamour and excitement here

Council vacancy
April 3, 2025 in Community
Updated October 30 2025

Following the resignation of Michael Crye as an Oberon Councillor, a casual vacancy has arisen on Council. Filling the vacancy has to follow a fixed procedure.
See more about this here

Editorial - Council vacancies
April 3, 2025 in Opinion and Community
Updated October 30 2025

For the second time since the September, 2024, council elections, Oberon Council has lost one of the nine Councillors. This means another round of examining the September votes to find a replacement, with the additional cost and disruption to Council business that this entails. Here's hoping we've seen the last of this sort of thing.
See the opinion piece here

Oberon Men's Shed latest raffle
March 27, 2025 in Community

Oberon Men's Shed latest raffle has been drawn, with some very worthy winners.
See the results here