Penrith City Mayor Tricia Hitchen unveiled a plaque to Australia’s Canoe Slalom champion Jessica Fox at the Penrith Whitewater Stadium. Photos supplied by Penrith City Council. AUSTRALIA and the world’s number-one ranked female canoe slalom athlete Jess Fox OAM has been honoured with a plaque celebrating her career, which will be installed at the entrance […]

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, […]

Hi I’m Karen, I am trying to raise funds for this beautiful young family so that they can travel to Germany to get the cancer treatment they need so desperately for their little girl, Mia Shannon. Mia is a beautiful vibrant little girl who is living with Medullablastoma. She was diagnosed with this horrible cancer […]

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 […]

NRL legend Royce Simmons is hitting the road again for Royce’s Big Walk, with plans to walk more than 300 kilometres from Dubbo to Bathurst, and is seeking new sponsors to help him raise much-needed funds for dementia research. Kicking off on Tuesday 18 April, Simmons will be joined by an array of high-profile walking […]

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 […]