Gunnedah Shire Council’s Cultural Officer, Lauren Mackley is calling for submissions from young artists between the ages of 5 to 25 years, within the Gunnedah Shire to explore their creative side and submit artworks for the 2017 Youth Week Exhibition. The theme for Youth Week, 2017 is ‘Be here, Be heard!’ This is an opportunity for the youth of Gunnedah to express how they want to heard in the Gunnedah community, through their chosen artistic…

Have you got what it takes to take out the (very prestigious) title ‘Gunnedah’s Best Cake Maker’?You’ll just have to enter our cake competition to find out! So what’s this all about?!The 2017 Australia Day program will see the inclusion of a new and exciting event, the ‘Aussie Day Bake Off’. The ‘Aussie Day Bake Off’ is a competition to find Gunnedah’s best Australia Day themed and decorated cakes.Be as creative as you like –…

Alterations to Waste Management Services Christmas and New Year   Waste Management Facilities   Please be advised that the following facilities will be closed on Christmas & New Year’s Day   Gunnedah Waste Management Facility Curlewis Waste Facility Carroll Waste Facility Mullaley Transfer Station Kelvin Mobile Collection Service   RECYCLING COLLECTION - GUNNEDAH   Monday 26 December 2016 Collection will be on Wednesday 28 December 2016. Residents are requested to place their recycling bins out…

Gunnedah Shire Council is again calling out to the community to give generously to the Community Christmas Tree Appeal. Council’s Community Christmas Tree Toy and Food Appeal focuses on the collection of food and toys for distribution by the Salvation Army to local individuals and families who are facing tough times over Christmas. {rsfiles path="GunnedahShireCouncil/COUNCIL/KEEP-IN-TOUCH/News-and-Media/Media-Releases/Connecting Our Community Through Compassion Poster.pdf"} This appeal will be boosted by Gunnedah Shire Library’s Food For Fines initiative, which encourages…

Gunnedah Shire Council has tonight resolved to offer up to $100,000 funding over the next twelve months for the Gunnedah Waterways Wildlife Park. The funds are proposed to cover up to $75,000 for the appointment of a Wildlife Park Manager, and up to $25,000 for the accommodation of the manager who will be instituted at the park as part of a wider strategic plan to enable the park to remain open now and into the…

Time is fast running out to nominate that ‘special person’ for an Australia Day Award, with event organisers calling for all entries to be submitted no later than Friday, 16th December, 2016. “I would encourage anyone wishing to nominate a person or group that they believe is a deserving nominee for an Australia Day Award to do so sooner rather than later”, Australia Day Committee Chair, Councillor Colleen Fuller said. “Nominations do not have to…

The first Putting the Pieces Together artistic workshop was held last Saturday, the 5th of November, with participants from Gunnedah’s Young Access group painting, drawing, and decorating giant puzzle pieces. The members of Young Access created a wonderful and diverse jigsaw pieces, designed to create giant cubes which will tour in a travelling exhibition through the North West, showing how arts and people with disabilities can fit together with the community. Young Access provides an…

Councillor Owen Hasler has been elected to the Executive of the Association of Mining Related Councils at the Annual General Meeting held in Picton and hosted by Wollondilly Shire Council on Friday, 4th November. Councillor Hasler has been a member of the Executive since 2014 and joins Chairperson Councillor Peter Shinton (Warrumbungle Shire), Vice-Presidents Councillor Lillian Brady (Cobar Shire) and Councillor Chris Connor (Wollongong City Council), and fellow executive members Councillor Hollie Jenkins (Singleton Shire)…

Late yesterday, Gunnedah Shire Council General Manager Eric Groth, Director Infrastructure Services Wayne Kerr and Mayor Jamie Chaffey met with Member for Tamworth Kevin Anderson to discuss progress on the promised second rail overpass in Gunnedah. The meeting came about on the back of Gunnedah Shire Council’s October meeting where it was resolved that clarification be sought on the timeframe for the construction of the NSW Government’s proposed second rail overpass in Gunnedah. Initially, the…

Late yesterday, Gunnedah Shire Council General Manager Eric Groth, Director Infrastructure Services Wayne Kerr and Mayor Jamie Chaffey met with Member for Tamworth Kevin Anderson to discuss progress on the promised second rail overpass in Gunnedah. The meeting came about on the back of Gunnedah Shire Council’s October meeting where it was resolved that clarification be sought on the timeframe for the construction of the NSW Government’s proposed second rail overpass in Gunnedah. Initially, the…