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Lithgow Bears are set to take on Portland Colts at Tony Luchetti Showground. Picture: SUPPLIED.

Lithgow Bears to recognise sponsor support at next home game

Lithgow Bears

Grippers and Loopers through to the semi-finals

Grippers and Loopers through to the semi-finals

Tough games continue in midweek tennis competition

Tough games continue in midweek tennis competition

Lithgow Bears are set to take on Portland Colts at Tony Luchetti Showground. Picture: SUPPLIED.

Lithgow Bears to recognise sponsor support at next home game

LIKE A TIGER: Blake Fitzpatrick has helped Oberon to a solid start to the Group 10 season and the Tigers will face another test on Sunday against Cowra. Photo: PHIL BLATCH

GROUP 10 TEAM LISTS | Can decimated Magpies run with Starling's tough Tigers?

Nick McGrath

GYMNAST: Ebony Pender. Picture: SUPPLIED.

Ebony Pender selected for regional gymnastics team

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Lithgow Garden Club members on their recent tour of Portland.

Lithgow Garden Club to host talk by Bret Sowerby on June 3

Lithgow Garden Club

CELEBRITIES: Married at First Sight stars Tamara Joy, Billy Vincent and Elizabeth Sobinoff will be appearing at a special event in Bathurst next month.

Bathurst's Oxford Hotel to host stars from Married at First Sight

Sam Bolt

VIOLIN VIRTUOSO: Nicole Hammill from Mitchell Conservatorium's 'String Theory' ensemble, who will be performing tomorrow night. Photo: PHIL BLATCH 051419pbstring6

Mitchell Conservatorium's String Theory ensemble to perform the classics

Sam Bolt

Scots All Saints College Year 8 Captains Zane Newham (second from left) and Emily Brown (second from right) said they both value the environment of the new Middle School.

Why middle school is giving students the edge before senior school years

Jill Hogan

Lithgow laundry delivering the goods

Lithgow laundry delivering the goods

Vanessa Hayden

Stunning: World renowned artist, Guido Van Helten, has been busy painting Portland's old cement works, now known as The Foundations. Photo: Ciara Bastow.

The lifeblood of Portland

Andrew Lotherington

Scots All Saints College Year 8 Captains Zane Newham (second from left) and Emily Brown (second from right) said they both value the environment of the new Middle School.

Why middle school is giving students the edge before senior school years

NEW FACES: A total of 39 excited new faces joined La Salle Academy's Year 7 class and the rest of the students in 2019. Photo: Alanna Tomazin.

Provide the richest of opportunities

READY TO LEARN: Jessica Jewell was one of many new faces in Lithgow Public Schools 2019 Kindergarten class. Photo: Kirsty Horton.

Your chance to get ready to learn

REAL ESATE: Looking to invest in the Central West? New data from Suburbanite shows where you should avoid. Photo: FILE

Looking to invest in the Central West? Here's where to avoid

Nadine Morton

RENTAL MARKET: Finding it hard to find a rental in Lithgow? You're not the only one, new data shows. Photo: FILE

Finding it hard to find a rental in Lithgow? You're not the only one

Nadine Morton

DREAM AWAY: Central West’s most expensive homes in 2018 – in photos. Photos: DOMAIN

Central West’s most expensive homes in 2018 – in photos

Nadine Morton

Lithgow Garden Club members on their recent tour of Portland.

Lithgow Garden Club to host talk by Bret Sowerby on June 3

Lithgow Garden Club

HISTORIC MOMENT: Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin here on July 21, 1969, standing on the Moon in a photograph taken by mission commander Neil Armstrong. Across Australia and around the globe, hundreds of millions tuned in to watch as the human race took its first steps in space. Once the realm of science fiction, it was now a reality. Picture: NASA

Race to space began as a daring dream

By Helen Sim

Paul grabs a sausage sanga from Lithgow Lions Club volunteers.

We recognise our valuable volunteers

Paul Toole

Lithgow Garden Club members on their recent tour of Portland.

Lithgow Garden Club to host talk by Bret Sowerby on June 3

To bring together the Lithgow Catholic community to rejoice in the Good News of Christ and to share with others our joy.

Church services for the Lithgow area

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There's a million volunteering roles, all you've got to do is pick one

There's a million volunteering roles, all you've got to do is pick one

Nadine Morton

OCEAN'S mystery: Beachcomber John Miller from Port Fairy is discovering plenty of interesting items washed onto the shoreline. Picture: Anthony Brady

Beachcombers are on the hunt for rare finds along our coastline

Dribbling to success, Aussie Hoops once again proves popular

Dribbling to success, Aussie Hoops once again proves popular

The 2019/20 Lithgow Quota Club commitee members.

Lithgow Quota celebrate 67th installation dinner | Photos

Moey the alpaca comes to visit during library's story time | Photos

Moey the alpaca comes to visit during library's story time | Photos

Nic Langenberg (left) with 104-year-old Dorothy Yeomans at Sea Life Sydney Aquarium.

Watch this shark glide by 104-year-old Dorothy

Geraldine Cardozo

LEGEND: Jimmy Barnes has been booked to play at Pola Park in Tullamore on November 2. Photo: FILE

Jimmy Barnes including Central West on new tour schedule

Nadine Morton

IDAHOBIT: Val Poskitt, Heather Mahony and Francis Chung. Pictures: ALANNA TOMAZIN.

IDAHOBIT, a day of action and change for the LGBTIQ+ community | Photos

Alanna Tomazin

NEW RULES: There will be an immediate loss of licence for all drink drivers in NSW from today. Photo: FILE

Immediate loss of licence for all drink drivers from today

Paul grabs a sausage sanga from Lithgow Lions Club volunteers.

We recognise our valuable volunteers

Paul Toole

Letter: Act of kindness makes you proud to call Lithgow home

Letter: Act of kindness makes you proud to call Lithgow home

The Saint: Lithgow's Cook Street Plaza drab today but a mural tomorrow?

The Saint: Lithgow's Cook Street Plaza drab today but a mural tomorrow?

The Saint

Associate Professor Stephen Macfarlane is part of a clinical trial looking into treatment for Parkinson's disease dementia.

Trial of new drug to treat Parkinson's dementia

MEET AND GREET: Academics from University of Sunshine Coast with international students, attending a familiarisation tour of the Cooinda Aged Care.

Uni 'roomies' to move into aged care home

SMART MOVES: Thinking of downsizing to a granny flat? Make sure you formalise decisions and get legal advice before moving in.

Estate planning: avoid granny flat pitfalls

Bill Shorten is urging all Labor supporters to get behind the new party leadership team.

ALP's Neumann still has plenty to give

The Tasmanian seat of Bass is no longer on the AEC's too-close-to-call list.

Bass no longer on AEC 'in doubt' list

Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas will introduce new taxes to offset a fall in stamp duty revenue.

Property taxes to grow in Vic budget

Victoria's royal commission in the use of police informers has get an extra year to report findings.

More time for 'impossible' Lawyer X report

PM Scott Morrison will announce the post-election line-up of his team of ministers this weekend.

PM Morrison weighs ministry replacements

Paul Osborne

Adani will know by June 13 if Queensland's environment department will approve its plans.

Adani's upbeat but still has more hurdles

Liza Kappelle

Essendon man Bryner Menchavez has been missing for almost a month.

Concerns over Vic man missing for weeks

Christine McGinn

Samantha Farrer says she was shut down and her work was altered without her being consulted.

Inquest told investigator was shut down

Hannah Higgins

Limousin Australia Business and Operations manager Mardi Cook, Leanne Toll, Toll Cattle Co, Wongarbon, and Charmaine and Dean Kesby, Tamworth.

See who was at the Capitalise on Carcase conference in Armidale

Lucy Kinbacher
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The grand champion ram from Harewood White Dorper Stud, Rocky Forest, Bathurst with Diana Stewart, Harewood and judge, Graeme Budd, Old Munbilla, Coutts Crossing via Grafton.

Harewood ram again grand champion in the White Dorpers

Olivia Calver

The grand champion ewe from Nomuula with judge, Graeme Budd, Old Munbilla, Coutts Crossing, Cherilyn Lowe and Joanna Dixon, Nomuula, Moonbi and Jessica Huckel and Tamsyn Henry, Dubbo College Delroy.

Whynot and Nomuula Dorpers impress

Olivia Calver

The highway near Glen Innes: A picturesque window on the New England region of NSW. Image: Destination NSW.

Your weekly travel inspirations

John Rozentals

GOTTA DO IT?: Australian travellers surveyed by Hotels.com were more willing to pay out big ($1000 per night) to stay in five-star luxury in Anaheim, California in 2018.

Getting more bang for your five-star buck

Making the extraordinary appear ordinary in Siem Reap City

Making the extraordinary appear ordinary in Siem Reap City

John Rozentals

Stegbar's latest double glaze series, Alumiere, is designed to require minimal framing.

How to keep your heating bills down

Visit sydneyfishmarket.com.au/seafood-school/recipes-cooking-info/recipes

Try this: Scallop pot-sticker dumplings

OCEAN'S mystery: Beachcomber John Miller from Port Fairy is discovering plenty of interesting items washed onto the shoreline. Picture: Anthony Brady

Beachcombers are on the hunt for rare finds along our coastline

Jackson Graham