PENRITH is home to many dedicated, selfless and inspirational people and Council’s new Local Celebration Awards are an opportunity for us to recognise and celebrate these people in our community.  Do you know someone who could be Penrith’s 2023 Mayor’s Local Hero?   They’ll be following in the footsteps of our Local Celebration Awards 2022 […]

Londonderry Woman of the Year – Libby Clark Londonderry Woman of the Year – Libby Clark “There are so many amazing women across our community that work incredibly hard and are an inspiration to so many,” said Londonderry MP, Prue Car. “Libby Clark is just one of these amazing and inspirational women in our community, […]

HERE’S a story that we’d like to show particular recognition to on the week of International Women’s Day – for the very first time the board of the Museum of Fire has a noticeable female presence! The newly elected board is now a mixture of female and male members. Being known as a traditionally male-dominated […]

Karen and Brendon McKeown ran a local small business together.  MANY small business owners in Penrith are still in a recovery phase, having had to take out loans to keep them alive throughout the lockdowns and restrictions. A recent Business NSW survey predicted that a staggering 30 per cent face closure. With the state election […]

PENRITH and Blue Mountains communities will soon benefit from a new intensive care unit, additional inpatient units, renal services and more, with construction now underway on the second state-of-the-art clinical services building at Nepean Hospital. Premier Dominic Perrottet, Health Minister Brad Hazzard, Member for Penrith Stuart Ayres and Member for Mulgoa Tanya Davies have turned […]

You’ve probably started to notice that there is an election in the air. Flyers, signage and smiling candidates have began to appear at shopping centres and train stations around town.  There may not be as much kissing babies with this election being a post-pandemic one, but everything else seems to be campaign business as usual.  […]

SOME new faces will be spotted on corflute election signs and around town chatting to voters. The Labor Party has announced that Garion Thain has been preselected as the NSW Labor candidate for Badgerys Creek. The electorate of Badgerys Creek was formerly known as Mulgoa. Mr Thain is a lifelong local resident and says he […]

STATE Member for Mulgoa, Tanya Davies said nominations are now open for those who wish to nominate a Senior who makes our community great. The 2023 NSW Seniors Festival Local Achievement Award celebrates the work and achievements of seniors in the community.  “They are an invaluable part of the electorate of Mulgoa and Western Sydney […]

Our Community Cares is a local volunteer-based charity focussed on helping the Penrith  community. All money raised stays within the community to finance programs for the area’s lonely, infirmed, aged and young adults, with no costs for wages or committee payments. Each year they run gift wrapping stalls at both Nepean Village and Westfield Penrith, […]

ASSETJourney – the asset management software co-created by Tulich and implemented at The Royce for both their retirement living and aged care residents – has won Aged Care Innovator of The Year at the innovAGEING National Awards.  ASSETJourney’s Co-Creator, Aidan O’Flaherty said their experience in the Aged Care and Retirement Living space allowed them to […]