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Articles published in April 2025
 | It's election time again With a federal election coming up on May 3 there are lots of things you need to know. There are things we all need to know about the candidates as well, and there's even an article about how we do elections better than anyone else. |
Council vacancy 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. |  |
 | Editorial - Council vacancies 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. |
Western NSW Business Awards Congratulations have to go to Oberon's finalists in the 2025 Western NSW Business Awards:
Good luck to all of the finalists. |  |
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April 3, 2024 in General News
Here is what has happened around this site over the last three months
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| January | 1163 | What's On Around Oberon There was only one update to the site during January. |
| February | 1819 | What's On Around Oberon |
| March | 2388 | March 2025 Oberon Council Meeting |
"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.
 | Busy times at the local schools Everyone was flat out as they wound down to the end of term next week. There was a lot of school sport (with the young folk showing their elders how it's done), some excursions to learn about life outside the school fence and even some arithmetic. And a caterpillar!! |
The soccer season kicks off All the competitive grades in the Oberon United Football Club hit the field for the first round of the 2025 competition. |  |
 | Out in the back of the paper The golf championships have been decided (and nobody complained about playing in the rain), but the big sports news is the way the youngsters are moving up to show the geriatrics a thing or two. |
Book review - "Facts and other lies" by Ed Coper Who knows what to believe any more? With people getting their "news" from Facebook, YouTube and other social media sites where the content is virtually uncensored or unchecked it means that telling the truth from the opposite can be a real challenge. This book is about that challenge. |  |
 | Latin Music and Drumming 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. |
Cars and Coffee Over 40 cars turned up at Oberon Common on the morning of Sunday, April 6, for the monthly Cars and Coffee meeting. |  |
 | Looking forward to the school holidays Just a normal week in the schools around Oberon, with so much happening that it's hard to keep up. There's cooking, counting, cross country running. And all the other sports. |
When all the sport happens all at once A big winner in the golf with a Hole in One, set backs for both the men and the women in both soccer and league, learning something about riding ponies and some good news on the school sport front. |  |
 | Oberon Council Mayor's Column This week's column from Oberon Mayor Andrew McKibbin can be seen here. |
Autumn Garden Showcase The weekend of April 12 1nd 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. |  |
 | Questions for election candidates We asked the election candidates some questions about what they would do if elected. The response was ... |
An author at the library 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. |  |
 | Now we know who we're voting for A bit more information is available about the coming federal election, like who the candidates are, where you can go to cast a vote before polling day and where the polling places will be on May 3. |
Editorial - The use of AI There's lots being said about artificial intelligence and its effect on journalism and the arts. |  |
 | That's it for Term 1 Term, 1 has ended and everyone is off for a week's holiday, returning to school after the ANZAC day weekend. Lots happened in the last week of term |
News from the paddock All the sport, all over the place. |  |
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