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The Echo has been delivered into letter boxes in Katoomba, Leura and Wentworth Falls for the past 18 months and provides local news and events as well as low cost advertising for local businesses. It’s great to be able to extend the distribution to Blackheath and Medlow Bath. The Echo is being delivered with [...]
Continue reading...Local Businesses Support Winter Magic
15. July 2010
This year there has been a been a big increase in the number of businesses sponsoring the Winter Magic festival. After the success of initiatives like the Christmas shopping evenings, businesses are increasingly seeing the benefits in both cross promotion and community involvement. This year the major sponsors were Sydney Water, the Carrington Hotel, [...]
Continue reading...Medlar jelly, paste tart and cheese
2. June 2010
The medlar is a beautiful tree perfect for growing in the upper mountains. The fruit is ripened off the tree and delicious if prepared the right way. 10.30 am Sunday 6 June 2010 It will probably be too late for you to go but there was the opportunity to go to Bullaburra with the [...]
Continue reading...Pink Fest
2. June 2010
PINK FEST is a 10 day GLBTIQ Festival starting on Friday 11th June, the Queen’s Birthday weekend. There are events planned throughout the 10 days starting with: • BENT Art exhibition starting the Festival on 11th June • The Annual Blackheath Dance on Saturday 12th June • The Annual Queens Ball on Sunday 13th June During the week there will [...]
Continue reading...The Warm and Fuzzy Festival
2. June 2010
June 27th 10am – 2pm at Katoomba North Public School hall The idea for first Warm and Fuzzy Festival came about over a humble cuppa and chat late last 2008 at Katoomba North Public School. Some local residents were talking about what makes North Katoomba such a unique and dynamic place and what they love about [...]
Continue reading...Board Games
6. May 2010
Ronnie and Damien from Hideaway Retreat at Wentworth Falls are playing host to a budding community of Board Game Players, and would like to invite friendly and like-minded folk to join them for a game or two in Edison’s Laboratory. “We have the classics like Scrabble and Risk and Monopoly,” says Ronnie, “but we want people [...]
Continue reading...ANZAC Day parade
4. April 2010
When the marches down Katoomba Street this year, it will be under the command of a local serving member of the Army Reserve. Lance Corporal Keith Robinson from Wentworth Falls, carried out the task of being the ‘Parade Marshall’ in last year’s ANZAC march through Katoomba, and has been invited to take on the [...]
Continue reading...Radio Plays
17. March 2010
Blue Mountains Radio Players have moved to a new home at the Coach House, behind the Mountain Heritage Hotel on the corner of Apex and Lovel Streets, Katoomba. Performances are on the last Sunday of every month, at 2.30pm. For those without cars, The Blue Mountains Bus company will be sending a bus to the south [...]
Continue reading...Controversial art
17. March 2010
Local designer and business woman Helen Mountford has clashed with Integral Energy over an art project intended to make public spaces more friendly and welcoming. In the same spirit as the vibrant knitted covers for street-signs and power-poles, Helen decided to make a colourful cover for the electricity box outside her shop, which had been covered [...]
Continue reading...Lone Pine Descendent
11. February 2010
The Katoomba RSL Sub-Branch has had a donation of remarkable historical significance. Blue Mountains historian, Mr Geoff Bates presented the Sub-Branch with two Aleppo Pines that are direct descendants of the original Lone Pine that grew on Lone Pine Plateau at Gallipoli. Lone Pine was the scene of a major offensive launched by the 1st Australian Infantry [...]
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6. August 2010
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