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Warren hardware store supports Tradies in Sight visit in April

A local business has thrown its support behind the highly anticipated visit to Warren next month by regional mental health and wellbeing powerhouse, Tradies In Sight. Warren Joinery and Hardware Store will host the Dubbo-based non-profit when it...

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Sharon Bonthuys

30 Mar 2025

Regional News

Dolly Festival headliner a finalist in Search For Dolly quest

The international tribute performer who headlined the second Dolly Parton Festival in Narromine in September 2023 is in the running for a role in a musical about the iconic country singer’s life, due to rock Nashville, Tennessee, in July...

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Sharon Bonthuys

30 Mar 2025

News

Dubbo tradie brothers’ success with male ‘Aussie battler’ skincare line

Five years after they first downed tools to follow their dream to create a skincare line for men, former Dubbo tradies Zac and Beau London are celebrating the success of their growing business. The chippie, 30, and the plumber, 25, started their...

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Sharon Bonthuys

22 Mar 2025

News

Helen McLean celebrates 30 years of “I Do”

Dubbo civil celebrant Helen McLean has quietly clocked up 30 years as an authorised marriage celebrant. While the active septuagenarian admits to slowing down, she has no plans to stop helping couples tie the knot just yet. The vibrant Dubbo...

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Sharon Bonthuys

17 Mar 2025

News

A new face leads CWLA: Renee Matheson

Dubbo educator Renee Matheson brings more than a quarter of a century of skill and experience to the role of acting principal at the growing local independent school, the Central West Leadership Academy. Appointed for a 12-month...

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Sharon Bonthuys

14 Mar 2025

News

Chasing the sun, STEM and sponsors: ANU solar race team visits Dubbo

Dubbo was the second-last stop on an innovative tour of regional NSW by students from the Australian National University (ANU), testing their solar race car in preparation to enter the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in August. Never heard of the...

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Sharon Bonthuys

11 Mar 2025

News

Three-way tie in local annual film festival

In a first, three of the 11 featured short films screened at the fourth annual Romance Rules Film Festival held recently in Dubbo tied for first place. Featuring a creative range of entries from the USA (four), Australia (three), France, Italy...

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Sharon Bonthuys

11 Mar 2025

News

Community stalwart John Gibson humbled to receive civic award

“It was definitely something I didn’t expect,” he told Dubbo Photo News

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Sharon Bonthuys

10 Mar 2025

News

Fair Trading to hold consumer rights roundtable in Dubbo

Want to know your rights as a consumer, small business owner or trader? Dubbo is the next stop on the NSW Fair Trading road-trip across the state, and you have the chance to attend a consumer rights roundtable hosted by the agency locally. The...

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Sharon Bonthuys

09 Mar 2025

News

Not to be missed: Dubbo Women’s Festival, March 7

By Sharon Bonthuys With myriad events being held around the region right now celebrating International Women’s Day later this week, the Dubbo Women’s Festival returns to the Western Plains Cultural Centre’s Community Art Centre this Friday...

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Narromine Star

07 Mar 2025

News

Dubbo remembers: 70th anniversary of 1955 flood

An anniversary quietly ticks over this week as the region remembers and reflects on a major natural disaster that swept across central and northern NSW, and gave birth to what we now know and appreciate as the State Emergency Service. In late...

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Sharon Bonthuys

05 Mar 2025

News

MP Mark Coulton warns against melanoma

Just days before the Melanoma March to be held in Dubbo this Saturday, March 8, retiring Federal Member for Parkes Mark Coulton has used his own personal experience with the disease to warn constituents about the importance of being sun-safe. “I...

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Narromine Star

02 Mar 2025

News

Love notes and sweet treats at Church Street Café

Church Street Café went all-out for Valentine’s Day recently, offering patrons the opportunity to write love notes to their “crushes” and tempting them with sweet treats. Some patrons took up the pen provided and wrote love notes to special...

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Sharon Bonthuys

28 Feb 2025