The big rains of April are past, leaving many smiling faces as dams and water tanks have filled to overflowing after a dryish summer. Early frosts and dark, cold days have given way to balmy days with summer clouds. The weather patterns are scrambled. Overall it seems that winter has…
Despite concerns that followed a weather event earlier in the week Sunday’ 26th April’s historical commemoration of the 1815 arrival in Hartley of colonial Governor Lachlan Macquarie was hailed a remarkable success. The celebration in Butler’s Paddock on the caves Road marked the 200th anniversary of the expedition by the Governor and his party along the route of Cox’s…
FOLLOWING a season free of major outbreaks across the local area, the NSW Rural Fire Service advises an end to the statutory Bush Fire Danger Period within the Chifley-Lithgow Team area. From April 1st fire permits will no longer be required for the Bathurst, Oberon and Lithgow Local Government Areas for standard pile burns and agricultural burns. NSW RFS…
DESCENDANTS of pioneer road builder William Cox are celebrating the addition of his road over the Blue Mountains to the State Heritage Register. The listing notes that ‘the surviving remnants of Cox’s Road, built 1814 to 1815, have state significance as the earliest road across the Blue Mountains and the first structure built by Europeans west…
