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Gloucester’s country women cook to win By Marilyn SANDERSON REPRESENTATIVES from the CWA Gloucester Branch and Evening Branch recently did battle with peers from across the region in a fiercely competitive cooking competition. Ahead of the CWA state conference in Forster in May, the Wauchope branch hosted the Land Cookery and Friendship Day at Wauchope RSL Club on Thursday 19 February. It was attended by 52 members from 11 branches, spanning Gloucester in the south to Nambucca Valley in the north. The competition was hotly-contested with 110 entries from across the Mid
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Intersection fix urged as truck traffic set to soar
Wednesday, 4 March 2026
By John WATTS
Barbara Reichert, Denise Hawdon and judge Ellice Schrader. Photo: supplied.
A FORMER traffic engineer has expressed urgent safety concerns over two infamous highway intersections,
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describing the level of risk as "unacceptable". As reported in NOTA on 21 January 2026, the NSW
Government currently has no firm plans to fix the busy and CONTINUED Page 3
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