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Gloucester High students Albie Cameron, Nick Maggs, Kymani Tarr and Sophie Lenehan look to life after school

FOR Gloucester High School’s Year 12 students, the final weeks of school are about more than study, exams and the countdown to the HSC. They mark the end of years spent growing up alongside friends, teachers and a community where, as Nick Maggs puts it, “you know everyone”. When Nick, Albie Cameron, Kymani Tarr and […]

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Printed Edition 23 SEPTEMBER 2026

Sport

NRL: Knights have Penrith in their sights after dramatic win over Warriors

Kalyn Ponga has declared there are more chapters to write in Newcastle’s revival story as the 2025 wooden spooners aim to upset Penrith to make the grand final. After Sunday’s drama-charged 12-10 win over the Warriors in Auckland, Newcastle’s Cinderella finals run will extend into another week with Justin Holbrook’s set to face Penrith in […]

Property

54 Cowper Street, Stroud is on the market with Elders Real Estate Gloucester

54 Cowper Street, Stroud NSW 24253 bed, 1 bath, 3 WC, 2 car$950,000 THIS is an excellent opportunity to secure one of Stroud’s rare main street properties with commercial space. Much of the building consists of residential space: three bedrooms, one bathroom and two WCs within a two-storey layout. The approximately 63sqm of commercial space […]

Featured

World-class music strikes a chord at Craven Creek

The Old Tin Shed. Photo: Supplied. Classical musicians in full flight. Photo: Supplied. IT’S not often classical music performers and their audience are visited by an inquisitive possum or a lazy python, but that’s exactly what’s happened in the past at the Craven Creek Music Festival. Each year, some of Australia’s most outstanding classical musicians […]

Community, Local News

Dorothy Kirk, 92, a storehouse of Gloucester’s local history

LOCAL citizen historian Dorothy Kirk turned 92 in September. She has a trove of stories, having spent all but three years of her long life in the Gloucester region. Ms Kirk attended Stratford Primary School and Gloucester Central School before attending Methodist Ladies’ College as a boarder for three years. “I remember being terribly homesick […]

Sport

Paul Blanch stars with hole-in-one

THE “Hole-in-One Club” eludes even the best of golfers so it must have come as a form of relief as much as joy when, on this past Saturday 19 September, Paul Blanch hit his tee shot on the 15th hole into the cup. With six club championships under his belt, he would have been forgiven […]

Gloucester District

Opposition’s promised youth crime crackdown slammed for ignoring root causes

CONTROVERSIAL ‘adult crime, adult time’ laws proposed by the NSW Opposition have been criticised for wrongly targeting vulnerable young people being used as tools by organised crime gangs. The NSW Coalition on Sunday pledged to make young offenders face tougher penalties within 100 days of winning government if it triumphs at the March state election. […]

Gloucester Public School students shine in literacy and numeracy

THE Gloucester Public School community was justifiably delighted with this year’s “Check-in” literacy and numeracy results. The Check-in assessment is an annual online assessment for students in Years 3 to 9 in NSW Public Schools, with all students completing a reading test, and year 6 students also undertaking a writing task. The students also undertake […]

Highlights

Blake Walker, Brodie Taylor, Amy Fry and Daniel Brooks on leadership at Gloucester High School

LEADERSHIP is not simply about standing in front of an assembly or wearing a captain’s badge. For Gloucester High School’s outgoing captains, Blake Walker and Brodie Taylor, the past year has taught them that much of leadership comes down to something less visible: listening. As they prepare to hand the role to incoming captains Amy […]