24/07/2008 | Lithgow Council hopes to have a report for early next month leading to the development of a streamlined Land Use Strategy and Local Environment Plan (LEP) to overcome anomalies in planning instruments currently available to Council officers.
24/07/2008 | There was a huge amount of interest shown in the Jobs Summit held on Tuesday, reflected by the large number of people who filled the Millennium Room of the Lithgow Workmens Club.
24/07/2008 | Lithgow Council has been asked to consider a revision of standards applying to under awning signage in the business areas of the Council domain.
24/07/2008 | If nothing else the proposals for a deviation of the Great Western Highway through Hartley and the possible alternative of a Newnes Plateau route have generated some strong viewpoints and healthy debate.
24/07/2008 | THIS Sunday is National Tree Day – Australia’s biggest community tree planting event and a day for all Lithgow district residents to join with people across Australia to help out by planting native trees and shrubs at a Tree Day site in their local area.
24/07/2008 | The local environment, provision of industrial land and utilisation of power station by-products emerged as key issues proposed by participants at a Lithgow Jobs Summit on Tuesday.
22/07/2008 | It’s time for the State Labor Government to face the facts and address the real problems concerning the transport of freight in and out of Western NSW, according to Shadow Minister for Roads Duncan Gay.
22/07/2008 | Applications opened yesterday for the 2009 Hoskins Lithgow Scholarship, presenting another huge opportunity for local students preparing for tertiary studies.
22/07/2008 | The National Museum of Australia will tomorrow take possession of an artwork created as a Higher School Certificate major work by a Lithgow High School student.
22/07/2008 | Regional Director of Education for Western NSW, Carole McDiarmid, had expressed pleasure at last week’s announcement that local public secondary schools have joined forces with local employers to ensure a continuing flow of skilled workers for industry.
22/07/2008 | DARLENE Young and her friend ‘Frosty the Snowman’ were just two of the members of the Three Tree Lodge community to take part in the facility’s White Christmas celebrations last Thursday afternoon.
22/07/2008 | The maternity unit at Lithgow Hospital is set to face significantly increased demands on its facilities following the shock announcement of the closure of the birthing unit at the Blue Mountains District Hospital at Katoomba, apparently due to staff shortages.
20/07/2008 | The Federal Member for Macquarie, Bob Debus has announced that the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) will investigate the viability of an alternative highway corridor between Mt Victoria and Marrangaroo, west of Lithgow.
20/07/2008 | A man accused of the bashing murder of a young Wallerawang father during an alleged assault at a Wallerawang hotel two months ago has made a brief appearance in Lithgow Court on Thursday.
20/07/2008 | Some high profile speakers will be taking part in the Lithgow Jobs Summit at the Workmens Club on Tuesday.
20/07/2008 | Greater Lithgow residents could know the identity of their Council’s new General Manager as early as next week.
20/07/2008 | Joshua Jerga from Lidsdale has landed the opportunity of a lifetime after being selected to work at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games as a ‘flash quote’ reporter.
20/07/2008 | WHEN future generations want to find out about our way of life and significant events from a past era they will owe a huge vote of thanks to the tireless efforts of Lithgow television cameraman and reporter Brian Hustwayte.
17/07/2008 | Local ‘bright spark’ Max McKinney, 17, of Marrangaroo Fields, is among Integral Energy’s first ever intake of Transmission System Electrician apprentices.
17/07/2008 | The military was still ‘messing about’ with sinister mustard gas projects at the Marrangaroo Army Camp as recently as the 1980s, according to an informed source.