Burn Bright Promoting Leadership and Wellbeing
By Meredith Blair Organised by Where There’s A Will and sponsored by Hunter Valley Operations, Burn Bright’s programs were delivered for the first time to Singleton’s Year 5 students, teaching them valuable lessons about leadership and maintaining their wellbeing. Burn Bright has been voted Australia’s top not for profit for three years in a row, […]
Burn Bright Promoting Leadership and Wellbeing
By Meredith Blair Organised by Where There’s A Will and sponsored by Hunter Valley Operations, Burn Bright’s programs were delivered for the first time to Singleton’s Year 5 students, teaching them valuable lessons about leadership and maintaining their wellbeing. Burn Bright has been voted Australia’s top not for profit for three years in a row, […]
Singleton Community Garden Gets Frocked Up
By Meredith Blair The members of the Singleton Community Garden will be all dressed up this weekend at their Formal Frock Social Gardening this Sunday June 18. Opening nine years ago, the garden was built on an old tennis court along Singleton’s Bathurst St, now containing a variety of plants including olive trees, native trees, […]
Top Honour for Hunter Belle Cheese
By Jem Anshaw When discussing their recent Muswellbrook Chamber of Commerce and Industry Awards success, the owners of Hunter Belle Cheese Café are eager to acknowledge their staff’s role in the achievement. “We’ve been here doing this for many years now and we just do what we do, and we try and do it well, […]
Tears for Those We Love
By Di Sneddon No words can express the enormous sadness that has engulfed Singleton with the tragic news of the massive loss of life from Sunday’s bus crash.Ten people died, seven from Singleton, and those who survived have sustained physical and emotionalinjuries that will remain with them for the rest of their lives.There is no […]
Issue 76 (June 16, 2023)
Lights Out For Lady Liddell
Steven Lanesbury and Barry Moffitt were strangers when they started working at Liddell Power Station in 1979 and over the 44 years that have followed they, like many others, have become good mates. And on Old Lady Liddell’s final day last Friday, Steven and Barry were bestowed the honour of turning off the final turbine […]
Singleton Tidy Towns Garden Competition Has Been Postoned
Singleton Tidy Towns are mindful of the situation many of our residents are facing at present and feel it appropriate to postpone the Garden Competition, which was due to be judged on Tuesday 15th. Those who have already sent in their Entry Forms will be notified and in due course a new date will be […]
Man charged over historical sexual, physical abuse of teenage girl
Via NSW Police Media Detectives have charged a man over his alleged role in the historical sexual and physical abuse of a teenage girl in the state’s Hunter region. In January 2021, detectives from the State Crime Command’s Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad established Strike Force Baria to investigate the alleged kidnapping, sexual and […]
Charges over 2005 death of Singleton toddler
Via NSW Police Media Detectives investigating the death of a toddler more than 15 years ago in the state’s Hunter Region have charged a man with manslaughter. Jordan William Thompson was 21 months old when his mum, Bernice Swales, went to run some errands, leaving him in the care of her then partner during the […]
Pumpkin Pipped at the Post
The pizzaz of the pumpkins, the strut of the cattle, the muscles of the woodchoppers and the smiles on the faces all around indicated the 2021 Upper Hunter Show was an event many were extremely pleased to see return.
River Levels Tip the Top
up the banks threatening low lying farmland and potentially properties.
Denman Wins State Tidy School Award
Denman Public School students, staff and volunteers are excited to be formally recognised for the work they have been doing in an environmental sense at school.
Gill Family Gives New School their Blessing
With the blessing of family and friends, the Richard Gill School in Muswellbrook has celebrated its official opening.
Lioness Enters New Era
It was with dignity and grace that Singleton Lioness farewelled their 36 years of history to enter a new era under the name of Lions Club of Singleton Lioness.
