8:19 AM AEDT | WITH millions of dollars poured into sporting facilities to provide for young, healthy able- bodied members of Bathurst community, Bathurst Regional Council will have the opportunity to reward unemployed or retired men with a Bathurst Community Menshed.
The start of the new year should provide the best opportunity so far for council to capitalise on the work done by Bathurst East Rotary Club to develop a Menshed Business Plan, club president Brian Burke said.
8:18 AM AEDT | BATHURST Regional Council is stepping up its drive to improve access for the disabled across the city.
It is increasing the maximum level of grants for disabled access projects to $5000, based on a dollar for dollar basis.
Previously council sponsored the initiative to the tune of a maximum grant of $3000.
Approaches by representatives of council’s access committee to review the potential funding resulted in the beefing up of support for the scheme.
8:16 AM AEDT | BATHURST locksmith Rodney Graham endured one of his busiest weekends ever after a spate of break and enters in houses and business across the town.
The RCG Locksmith worked early Saturday morning but received numerous after hour calls in the evening and on Sunday.
“Easily thousands of dollars worth of damage to locks and doors occurred over the weekend,” Mr Graham said.
8:16 AM AEDT | A MAN accused of stealing a car and brandishing a handgun was refused bail in Bathurst Local Court yesterday.
Brett David Thomas, 46, from Nunkeri Place in Orange appeared before Magistrate Jan Stevenson on a string of charges relating to an incident which allegedly occurred on Friday.
Thomas, presently in custody, appeared in court via audio visual link.
8:13 AM AEDT | A PLAN to confiscate for three months the cars of P-platers caught driving more than 20 kilometres per hour over the speed limit will do little reduce the road toll.
Bathurst driving instructor, Warren Aubin, criticised the proposal which is being pushed by State Traffic Commander Superintendent John Hartley, following a weekend of carnage involving P-platers on the state’s roads.
5/01/2009 | A LUCKY group of Bathurst punters will be enjoying their start to 2009 having claimed a share of Saturday night’s $30 million NSW Lotteries Superdraw.
Across the state there were 22 division one winners, each receiving a late Christmas present of $1,363,636.27.
Robert Theobald, from Theobald’s Newsagency, sold the lucky winning ticket and said as to be expected the syndicate members were absolutely delighted.
5/01/2009 | BATHURST district farmers who waited through nearly 10 years of drought to grow a decent winter cereal crop say the untimely Christmas rain could hardly have been worse, arriving as it did when they were about to strip their best wheat crops for years.
While the district is producing good yields of wheat, all grain will have to be tested for quality before farmers know exactly how their wheat will be graded and what they might be paid.
5/01/2009 | POLICE from the Chifley Local Area Command have charged a man following an incident in the State’s Central West on Friday.
Around 3pm a white Holden Commodore was reported stolen from an address in Orange.
The vehicle was then reported to have been involved in a number of minor traffic matters on the Great Western Highway including a road rage incident in Bathurst.
5/01/2009 | THE Bathurst rental market is set to hit breaking point just at a time when university students and new families are flooding into the area.
Local real estate agents are reporting depressed vacancy levels - some as low as one and two per cent - after a lack of properties became available to rent over the Christmas period.
Traditionally a significant number of properties become available during the university holidays as students return home for work and to visit family and friends.
5/01/2009 | INSTEAD of spending her holidays curled up on the couch, university student Kendall Kirkwood will hike across NSW to raise awareness of anorexia.
Starting in Bathurst today, the 21-year-old survivor of the insidious illness will walk 220 kilometres to Sydney over 10 days, ending at the Eating Disorders Foundation (EDF) office in Artarmon.
She hopes to raise a much-needed $2000 for the foundation, which helped her family through difficult times when she was sick.
2/01/2009 | The historic area between the Anglican Cathedral and King’s Parade could look very different if Bathurst Regional Council decides to realign the street in front of the new bell tower.
Council received a request from The Cathedral Bells of Bathurst Committee to construct a street realignment and entrance way to the bell tower, similar to the one in front of Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre.
2/01/2009 | Expect to see lots of snakes around over the coming weeks. According to snake handler Peter Carter, the recent storms will have flushed snakes out of their hiding places and spurred them to move around looking for a new home.
Mr Carter said the storms have also washed away much of the snakes’ food source such as mice and frogs.
“They are looking for food and they are looking for somewhere to live,” he said.
2/01/2009 | “THANK the Lord for the rain we’ve had,” Tablelands Livestock Health and Pest Authority director John Seaman said yesterday.
Mr Seaman was reflecting on the amazing summer rain to end 2008 and the beginning of the New Year with the former RLPB area centred on Bathurst removed from the drought-declared area of NSW for the first time in months.
2/01/2009 | BATHURST enjoyed 100 wet days during 2008 with a near record-breaking December rainfall of 170.2mm.
The December rainfall record that dates back to 1947 was in danger of being eclipsed following a sequence of wild summer storms that dumped 73mm over the Bathurst district in just 24 hours on December 13.
2/01/2009 | COUNCILLORS plan to keep an open mind when considering a new tender from Aquatic Leisure Management to run the Bathurst Aquatic Centre.
ALM won the initial tender to manage the region’s new $12.5 million but won a release from the contract just 15 months into a five-year deal, citing higher-than-expected energy costs.
Council is now advertising for new tenders and a recent report in the Western Advocate revealed at least three other companies were considering submitting a tender.
2/01/2009 | New Year’s celebrations turned into a double treat for Karen and David Sutton when their second son, Cameron George, became Bathurst and the Greater Western Area Health Service’s first baby for 2009.
Weighing 2.8 kilograms and measuring 50 centimetres, Cameron took his first breath at 2.08am yesterday, 22 minutes before GWAHS’s second bundle of joy was born at Dubbo.
1/01/2009 | SHOP owners at the Westpoint Shopping Centre were saddened and angered yesterday to find the complex had been targeted by graffiti vandals.
Shop owners arrived at their businesses to find the north...
1/01/2009 | THE Hildebrandts have fought wind and hail, numerous climbs onto the roof and damaged Christmas decorations to take out this year's People's Choice Award in the Put Christmas in Your Street competitio...
1/01/2009 | THEY'RE the "shoppers" no-one wants in their store, and according to local retailers they've been out in force over the past few weeks.
Shoplifters have been doing the rounds, costing struggling sm...
1/01/2009 | There will be something for everyone to do in the Bathurst region this Australia Day on January 26.
Celebrations kick off at 8am with the traditional free barbecue breakfast at the Eglinton War Mem...
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