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Articles published in May 2025
 | ANZAC Day in Oberon The traditional large crowds turned out in Oberon for ANZAC Day, starting with the Dawn Service at the War Memorial. The street was lined with spectators for the march from the Council Chambers to the memorial. |
Picnic in the Park 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. |  |
 | Oberon Council Mayor's Column This week's column from Oberon Mayor Andrew McKibbin can be seen here. |
What is Oberon Men's Shed Inc all about? 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. |  |
 | Moron Alert There have been some examples recently of people with very limited brain capacity damaging things around Oberon. None of the behaviour is life-threatening, more just a nuisance, but it affects everyone who likes to go through life without idiots making life difficult. |
A quiet week in the school holidays With all the schools on holidays there wasn't much going on in the education arena, but the schools were well represented at the ANZAC Day march and ceremonies. And there was a bit of other news, too. |  |
 | A sporting long weekend After a long Easter weekend when all the sports seemed to take a holiday, it was back to almost normal this week. Senior League had the wins, Junior League had the mud, the soccer, sorry, football players had mixed results. And the golfers had four days doing whatever it is that golfers do. |
Rusty Gate Honey goes to the Royal Bathurst Show Rusty Gate Honey had a big day of winning at the Royal Bathurst Show. |  |
Congratulations to Andrew Gee Oberon Matters would like to congratulate Andrew Gee for his reelection as the federal Member for Calare, and we look forward to seeing him around the electorate in the future. There was some nastiness during the campaign but his main opponent, Nationals Sam Farraway, was gracious in defeat. While the overall result for the election across the country was unexpected by all sides of politics (but not apparently, the bookmakers), we are lucky in Australia that everyone gets on after an election even if half of us are disappointed in the result. |
 | Council vacancy Following the resignation of Michael Crye from Oberon Council, Robert Lee has been elected to fill the vacancy. This was done under the normal countback procedures adopted by the NSW Electoral Commission.
Oberon Matters congratulates Robert. |
Oberon's schools are back from the break With the holidays over, everyone is back at school doing the sorts of things that make schooling interesting. And there's pumpkins too! |  |
 | Citius, Altius, Fortius is Latin for Sport There might have been an election on this weekend but that didn't stop people getting out and playing sport. (Nobody knows what it takes to keep golfers off the course.) |
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Media release: Oberon's water supply 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. |  |
 | Oberon's New Living Treasures 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 You Later Mum" - a play playing on your heartstrings 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" |  |
 | Teaching the town to sing The New Seekers and the Hilltop Singers wanted to teach the world to sing, but a slightly less ambitious project was to take some of Oberon's residents and teach them to sing. |
More raffle winners 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. |  |
 | All the schools, all the time Another very busy week for Oberon's schools. More stuff going on than you can point a stick of chalk at. |
Sport, sport and more sport There was sport all over the place on the weekend, with winners and losers. But what's important is playing the game. |  |
 | May 2025 Oberon Council Meeting Following the swearing in of new Councillor Robert Lee, there were several matters of interest discussed by Councillors. |
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 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. |
Oberon Council Mayor's Column This week's column from Oberon Mayor Andrew McKibbin can be seen here. | |
 | 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. |
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. |  |
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