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9:57 AM AEDT | Members of the Western Institute of TAFE NSW advisory board tried their hand at driving a semi-trailer in sun, rain and snow and even tested their ability to handle a blown tyre – all without leaving the carpark of the Cassilis Road TAFE campus.
9:56 AM AEDT | Mudgee Police encourage residents to check out the credentials of ceiling insulation installers before engaging them to undertake work of this nature at their residences.
9:55 AM AEDT | Mudgee Business Association (MBA) president Bill Avery has welcomed the release of the NSW Business Chamber’s “10 Big Ideas to Grow NSW”.
9:54 AM AEDT | The Kandos Bicentennial Industrial Museum has the potential to become a world-class museum and a major tourist attraction on the Bylong Way, according to a strategic plan considered by Mid-Western Regional Council’s cultural and community services committee this month.
9:53 AM AEDT | Mayor Percy Thompson put his experience at a former champion shearer to good use on Friday afternoon, lending a hand with the World’s Greatest Shave in aid of the Leukaemia Foundation.
9:48 AM AEDT | Almost a quarter of a million dollars of illicit drugs went up in smoke last Thursday in a joint operation between Mudgee Police, NSW Fire Brigade and Mid-Western Regional Council.
12 Mar 10 | Mid-Western Regional Mayor Percy Thompson says the State Government should “get on with” upgrading the Bells Line of Road to give traffic crossing the Blue Mountains to and from the Central West a better alternative to the Great Western Highway.
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12 Mar 10 | Mudgee Police are concerned that last week’s fatal accident on the Ilford to Sofala road does not appeared to have reminded motorists to exercising caution.
12 Mar 10 | Member for Bathurst Gerard Martin MP said he would not apologise for a gesture in State Parliament that has offended Deputy NSW Opposition Leader Jillian Skinner.
12 Mar 10 | Three years of growing his locks of hair and six months of growing a goatee beard will come to an end tonight at the Oriental Hotel when Graham Bourke sits down and allows his locks to be lopped in the name of charity.
12 Mar 10 | Country Energy has embarked on an Australian-first trial, using sniffer dogs to help detect termite infestation in power poles in the North Western region.
12 Mar 10 | The Mudgee region’s second Can Cruise will be held next weekend, raising funds to help local people with cancer.
12 Mar 10 | Mudgee will have the blues this weekend – but it’s all in a good cause.
10 Mar 10 | It may have seemed like a wet summer in Mudgee but statistics show our rainfall over the last three months has been on par with past summers.
10 Mar 10 | Rain has caused havoc for wineries in the region with recent downpours splitting the fruit that is still on the vines.
10 Mar 10 | Approval of a 205-dwelling seniors development in Mudgee will strain health services already struggling to cope with demand, Mid-Western Regional Council was warned last week.
10 Mar 10 | Visual Expanse owners Alex Rix and Kirsty Creed are attributing their nomination for stage two of the 2010 clock awards to their loyal customers and luck.
10 Mar 10 | The success of Mudgee Public School’s vegetable garden last year has encouraged its sponsors to introduce the gardening program into other schools in the area.
10 Mar 10 | Robert Oatley Vineyards have introduced a new range of wines that will feature at the 2010 Mudgee Clock Awards presentation dinner.
08 Mar 10 | Rain and clashes with other events in the Central West were the main reasons blamed for a poor show this year according to Mudgee Show Society president Barry Rheinberger.