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May 25 2025 Updated May 25, 2025

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Forbes home to new Aus Post parcel processing hub

Australia Post has revealed plans to build a parcel processing facility capable of handling up to 2200 parcels a day in Forbes. Construction on the 1,796 square metre site is scheduled to begin in early 2026, with an expected opening towards the end...

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25 May 2025

Cowra Guardian

Friday 50 years since PM opened “splendid” Vintage Village

“Certainly the people of Forbes and all Australians can be proud of this splendid and imaginative project.”They were the words of then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on 17 May 1975 as he officially opened the Lachlan Vintage Village. Friday marks...

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25 May 2025

Cowra Guardian

A grandstand for all

The Magpies Stand is the name endorsed for Spooner Oval’s new grandstand. With numerous individuals and family names put forward by the community, councillors were unanimous in their support of a name that reflected the group. It just wasn’t...

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25 May 2025

Cowra Guardian

Thanks for the memories: Son of Forbes launches memoirs

When Bob Flynn joined his wife’s U3A writing course, it didn’t take him long to find he had more than a few stories to tell. Forbes in the 1940s and 1950s was fertile ground for childhood adventures and as Anna provided story topic prompts to her...

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25 May 2025

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Work to remove old bridges begins

WORK starts this week to demolish and remove the remaining three decrepit and disused rail bridges, tracks, embankment and debris along the Belubula River at Canowindra. The bridges have not been in working order for many years and after the floods...

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25 May 2025

$3m Greenthorpe-Koorawatha Road Upgrade completed

The rehabilitation of Greenethorpe-Koorawatha Road, a vital throughfare connecting two farming communities and the shires of Weddin and Hilltops, is now complete. The project received $2.94 million as part of the former NSW Government’s Fixing...

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25 May 2025

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Back in the saddle: RDA celebrates upgrades

Cowra Showground, Racecourse and Paceway Land Managers have celebrated the official opening of a long-awaited undercover horse arena earlier this week in Cowra. Riding for the Disabled (RDA) has had a long path to the unveiling of the new shelter...

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25 May 2025

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Sydney Royal award a ‘team effort’

A Canowindra dairy team has won Sydney Royal’s best presented team of over five head in their breed. Dr Ellen Downes and her family won the Best Maintained Illawarra Team over five head - an achievement she attributed to a whole team effort. This...

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25 May 2025

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Green light for library work

Cabonne Council is pleased to confirm that the Construction Certificate for the long-awaited Canowindra Library and Community Health Services (CHS) refurbishment project was approved in late April 2025. With this milestone now achieved, the...

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25 May 2025

Forbes home to new Aus Post parcel processing hub

Friday 50 years since PM opened “splendid” Vintage Village

A grandstand for all

Thanks for the memories: Son of Forbes launches memoirs

Work to remove old bridges begins

$3m Greenthorpe-Koorawatha Road Upgrade completed

Back in the saddle: RDA celebrates upgrades

Sydney Royal award a ‘team effort’

Green light for library work