Melissa Wu and Chris Barton. Photos supplied by Chris Barton ‘Steps For Love of Living’ is proud to announce this year’s four-day suicide prevention awareness walk from Newcastle to Sydney (226km) over 10-13 September. Charity walker extraordinaire and founder of the ‘Charlotte’s Wish Walk Week’ Chris Barton and MMA fighter Rama Patterson (co-owner of Bakery […]
20 August 2026
Professional banking qualification. Bruce Turner AM, FAICD, FFIN, FIPA, FFA, FIML, CRMA, CGAP, CISA, CFE, PFIIA, JP has a deeply-rooted passion for the Nepean and the people who live and have lived in the District. Bruce’s family has lived in the Nepean Valley for eight generations. He is an accomplished authorand was the recipient of […]
20 August 2026
Tyrell with Box ‘N’ Burn team. IT was a capacity crowd at Richmond Race Club on Saturday 29th November 2025, on hand to see 20-year-old Tyrell Adams (Mt Druitt) defeat Shamal Ram Anuj to win the Australian National Boxing Federation (ANBF) Australian Featherweight title, becoming the 2nd-youngest fighter to hold the title behind the legendary […]
20 August 2026
Tahlia Tupaea in action this season. Photo: Aaron Camua FORMER Penrith Panthers junior and senior representative Tahlia Tupaea has guided the Bankstown Bruins women’s team into the grand final of the 2026 Mitsubishi Motors NBL1 East basketball competition. Tupaea delivered a game-winning 24 points, 5 rebounds two assists and four steals as the Bruins rolled […]
14 August 2026
Men’s 4 x 100m Relay. A 256-strong Australian Team at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games competed in ten sports on the Games program. Thirteen athletes from Western Sydney won selection to the Australian Team, including Jackson Sharp (Wentworth Falls) Men’s 5,000m – Athletics, Desleigh Owusu (Blacktown) Triple Jump – Athletics, Ritam Malik (Kellyville), Tru Hagens […]
06 August 2026
The Patterson Family. (L-R) Marie, Kelly, Jacob, Jackson, Natasha, Helen. THE Patterson family gathered from different areas of Sydney for Sunday’s second trip behind heritage locomotive 3801, celebrating the journey on David Patterson’s (deceased) favourite train. His wife Helen said “We had a great day. The driver Michael Potter was a great friend of David’s […]
30 July 2026
3801 in Penrith on the weekend. STEAM returned to Penrith on 25-26th July, with Australia’s favourite and perhaps most iconic heritage locomotive 3801 (the Legend of Steam) ferrying passengers from Penrith through the scenic Lower Blue Mountains to Valley Heights and back. With tickets sold out a week in advance, passengers fortunate enough to be […]
30 July 2026
Jonno, Jessica, Josh. Photos courtesy of Jessica Richardson 22 family and friends of Nigel Gooch (deceased), including his three children and their partners, three grandchildren, his sister, two nephews and friends headed out on Saturday from Penrith for a nostalgic and poignant journey behind heritage locomotive 3801. Daughter Jessica Richardson said, “We took my dad’s […]
30 July 2026
The Eights following their World Cup victory. Photo courtesy of Benedict Tufnell / Rowing Australia ROWING Australia (RA) has named crews for 13 boats to race at the 2026 World Championships held on the Bosbaan international course at Amsterdam, Netherlands from 24-30 August. The Rowsellas Team for Amsterdam comprises 61 athletes from across RA’s Men’s, […]
30 July 2026
Jess Fox – KX Time Trial Action 2026 Worlds. JESSICA Fox OAM has completed a comeback story for the ages, claiming her fifth women’s Kayak (WK1) title in Oklahoma at the 2026 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships. After being unable to defend her 2023 K1 World Championship title on home soil last year, Jess started […]
30 July 2026
