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Local Heros Forgo Pay To Get Kids and Sick Across the River

by Publishing | Mar 6, 2024 | News, Priority, Top News

Wire-drawn ferry operators volunteered their services without pay, ensuring children can attend school and emergency services can function smoothly. Amid a contentious dispute over pay and conditions with ferry contractor Birdon Group and the NSW government, ferry...

Go Slow on $50 million Sewer Repair Inquiry

by Sam Magnusson | Mar 4, 2024 | News, Priority

The expensive and multi year saga of the Windsor “Rising Main C” sewer repair will be stretched out even further. No action has been taken by Hawkesbury City Council management on the appointment of outside experts to audit the disaster which has cost more than...

Asbestos discovered at PCYC, South Windsor

by Sam Magnusson | Mar 1, 2024 | News, Priority

Asbestos has been discovered at the PCYC Hawkesbury Youth Centre at South Windsor, as the list of locations that have received mulch potentially contaminated with friable asbestos grows. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirmed asbestos was found at the...

Complaints Against Councillors Remain Behind Closed Doors

by Sam Magnusson | Mar 1, 2024 | News, Priority, Top News

A shroud of secrecy has been thrown over 23 separate complaints levelled against Hawkesbury City Councils’ 12 councillors or its General Manager under the official “Code of a Conduct” – that have cost ratepayers almost $100,000. Many of the complaints have been...

Koala Habitat to be Razed for New Kurrajong Development

by Publishing | Feb 26, 2024 | News, Priority

Environmentalist have raised serious concerns about massive clearing of koala habitat in Kurrajong, citing habitat destruction as the biggest threat to the endangered marsupials. The latest plans, by a developer new to the Hawkesbury, propose to raze more than 95...