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17 Mar 10 | Garlic offers a huge growth market in Australia — and Gloucester’s climate and reliable water supply make the area ideal for growing this potentially profitable crop.
Gloucester’s demonstration garden, the “Tucker Garden Patch” is to hold a series of hands-on workshops to help anyone wanting to move into garlic production, either commercially or for their own use.
17 Mar 10 | Gloucester Public School’s captains were inducted at assembly recently, in front of fellow students, family and friends.
17 Mar 10 | Members of Gloucester Probus Club thoroughly enjoyed their Fish and Ships tour on Sydney Harbour last Thursday.
17 Mar 10 | State bush poetry titles just keep heading to Gloucester.
Local poet Gabby Colquhoun has claimed the 2010 women’s state title at the Australia Bush Poets Association titles in Dunedoo recently.
17 Mar 10 | Stroud is to receive a new library courtesy of grant money from the State Government.
17 Mar 10 | In the late 1940s and early 1950s Gloucester had a thriving boxing community, with regular bouts and a huge following for the sport.
Local Julie Hardy is now trying to preserve some of the history associated with the sport, which helped play a part is raising funds to build the RSL Hall.
17 Mar 10 | Gloucester’s Quota Club celebrated Quota Cares month with a quilt and craft show at Barrington Hall on Saturday.
17 Mar 10 | Local politicians have criticised the Federal Government’s health reform package after metropolitan media reported that it could result in the closure of several hospitals, including Gloucester Soldiers Memorial Hospital.
10 Mar 10 | National Party candidate for the seat of Lyne David Gillespie has started to hit the hustings, in the lead up to the yet to be called Federal election.
10 Mar 10 | Three hundred kilograms of rubbish, including four shopping trolleys, was collected as part of the local haul for Clean Up Australia Day.
10 Mar 10 | Stroud residents now have until April 16 to lodge submissions with Great Lakes Council in relation to draft development control plan.
10 Mar 10 | It’s amazing what a building project and a cuppa can do.
Or so say the committee behind Gloucester’s Men’s Shed.
Up to 15 men regularly gather at the Community Workshop in Britten St, home to the Men’s Shed, among other facilities.
10 Mar 10 | NSW Health is moving ahead with plans to transfer nursing home beds at Hillcrest and Kimbarra to the private sector.
10 Mar 10 | Common sense needs to prevail.
That’s the opinion of Gloucester Shire Council’s general manager Allan Young surrounding the current push by the NSW Ambulance Service to introduce volunteer drivers at five stations in the Hunter region, Gloucester, Stroud, Bulahdelah, Merriwa and Murrurundi.
10 Mar 10 | Stroud residents are up in arms over the State Government’s proposal to use volunteer drivers for the ambulance service in their town.
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10 Mar 10 | There was silence in the crowd of around 100 as Mark Westley told his family’s story on Saturday, a story he felt bound to tell after his dying daughter Sarah asked that the story be told.
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10 Mar 10 | Two Gloucester High School students have joined more than 30 senior high school students across the region in signing up to complete a Certificate III in Health Services Assistance (Acute Care) as they study for their Higher School Certificate.
03 Mar 10 | Interest is building in Gloucester Rotary Club’s community relay.
03 Mar 10 | Barrington Street Preschool and Long Day Care Centre is celebrating after receiving one of the highest ratings possible from the National Childcare Accreditation Council, placing it in the top level of centres across Australia.
03 Mar 10 | The Mid North Coast Group of Council’s (MIDOG) will write to the Minister for Local Government to express its concern after the State Government’s decision to limit rate increases in the next financial year to 2.6 percent.
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