Community Leaders Come Together for New Line Road Upgrade

I recently brought together community leaders and representatives from local schools, sporting clubs, cultural organisations, churches, and community associations to discuss the long-awaited widening of New Line Road. While the organisations represented different parts of our community, the message was remarkably consistent: congestion on New Line Road is worsening and the impacts are being felt […]

Dural Bocce Club Celebrates Mothers Day and Championships

Dural Bocce Club members had plenty to celebrate this May, from a warm nod to Mothers Day early in the month to a full weekend of championship bocce at its close. The Mother’s Day gesture came first: every female member received a gift from the club, a small tradition that set a friendly tone for […]

Galston High’s ‘Mary Poppins’ Musical Opens This July

At Galston High School, that story started months ago, when students first picked up scripts for Mary Poppins, the show opening Thursday 23 July and running through Saturday 25 July 2026. What followed was the unglamorous, repetitive, occasionally frustrating work of turning a script into a show: singers hitting the same eight bars until they […]