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What's made news in the past week? Take a look at the photographs taken by Fairfax Media photographers that show what made news over the past seven days around the region.&nbsp;

BATHURST: RFS Chifley/Lithgow team manager superintendent Tom Shirt.

DUBBO: Shane Rosenzweig, UNSW Rural Allied Health and Medical Society, Kristen Furley, Coolah, Joshua Mortimer, UNSW Rural Allied Health and Medical Society, Renae Nash, Condobolin, Fiona Anlezark, Coolah.Photo: BELINDA SOOLE


ORANGE:  Geoff Lewis, Ronald McDonald House Orange chair Joanne Lewis, Ronald McDonald House Charities Australia chief executive officer Malcolm Coutts OAM and builder Mick Fabar during yesterday’s tour by Mr Coutts following the completion of Ronald McDonald House. Photo: JUDE KEOGH

MUDGEE: S&S Meats owner Clint Ramien displays some of his traditional Australian sausages that took out second place at the NSW Sausage King, Best Butchers Burger and Smallgoods Competition last weekend.

BATHURST: Bathurst State Emergency Service volunteers Wayne Bowden, Lochlan Rush and Charles Milne were tasked to remove a large tree branch off a picket fence at the corner of Browning and Rankin streets after a strong wind storm hit the city yesterday afternoon. Photo: CHRIS SEABROOK 

DUBBO: Fire and Rescue NSW and the Orana Rural Fire Service (RFS) worked to extinguish a fire that broke out on Monday afternoon.


ORANGE: Girls Night In organisers Renee Cullis (left) and Julianne Pearce (right), with Francine Sammut and (front) Tegan and Emily Sammut. Photo: JUDE KEOGH 

BATHURST:  Member for Bathurst Paul Toole in the middle of the Great Western Highway at Kelso, which is set for an $85 million upgrade.

BATHURST: Veterinarian Dr James Hunter gives Cookie the Cavoodle her vaccination to prevent against kennel cough. They are pictured with Claudia, 6, and Matt McRobert. Photo: ZENIO LAPKA


 DUBBO: Taronga Western Plains Zoo accommodation manager Penny Costello.Photo: GREG KEEN


COWRA: Jindalee Circuit resident Linda Randall has had enough of anti-social behaviour.

ORANGE: NSW Fair Trading community Liasion co-ordinator of the western region Carleen Cunningham met with the public at a community day for Fair Trading Week at Robinson Park, Orange yesterday. Photo: JUDE KEOGH


FORBES: Vanfest organisers Matt and Grant Clifton working out the partnership details with Can Assist president Kerry Dunstan.


DUBBO: Ingo Steppat, Michele Singleton, Trevor Slattery, Morgan Strawbridge, Donna Crameri, Debbie Bickerton, Karen Lloyd, Clinton Gibbs and (front) Scott McLachlan and Lyndal O'Leary launch the You just don't smoke around hospitals campaign in Dubbo.	Photo: BELINDA SOOLE

BATHURST: The Fire and Rescue NSW Band played on Kings Parade on Saturday as part of the Firefighters State Championships. Photo: PHILL MURRAY 


CANOWINDRA: Riley Bollinger shining two lights; blue to show support and gold for remembrance.


COWRA: Regular library users Michael and Sam Hayes enjoying a morning with Pat the Library Dog. Everyone is welcome to attend the celebrations on November 3.

ORANGE:  Molong Central School student Shaun Paterson, 16, speakers Margaret Kennedy and Nicole Sugden, Rotary Youth Driver Awareness organising committee chairman Don Hayman and Molong Central School student Paige Derooy, 16, discussed driver safety yesterday. Photo STEVE GOSCH.

DUBBO: Dubbo Christian School HCS students Jiajun Zhang, Angela Albion, Ben Coady and Andy Rowlands after completing the chemistry exam. Photo: BELINDA SOOLE.

ORANGE: Site manager Robert Halcro, principal Michael Croke, head of administration Brian Morrissey and assistant principal Steve Maguire discuss the plans that will bring Catherine McAuley Catholic Primary School into line with elite schools across the country. Photo: NICOLE KUTER 


WELLINGTON: Locals band together to fight the impending closure of Target


BLAYNEY: Shailee Milthorpe, Grace Hutt, Lucy Wellsted, Chloe Begbie and Hayley Baker claimed second in the state for their efforts in the Cows Create Careers - Farm Module.

DUBBO: Ian Retallack with Russ and the cart, which is he is travelling around Australia in. Photo: GREG KEEN


FORBES: The winning Forbes Public team Grace Prow, Whitney Duffy and Kristal Girot.

LIGHTNING RIDGE: Dr Phil Bell (dinosaur expert) with local opal miner Michael Matson.

 OBERON: Oberon High School students have learnt about fire awareness, fire science and leadership as part of a Rural Fire Service cadet program.


DUBBO: Dubbo Macquarie Regional Library director John Bayliss, Dubbo Library branch manager Jocelyn Morris, Dubbo library services and collections manager Lindy Allen and Library assistant Sarah Tillbrook.	Photo: TAYLOR JURD

BATHURST: A new RFS Control Centre will be built at Kelso after the State Government’s announcement of $3 million funding for the project. From left, deputy mayor Cr Ian North, Maurice McMillan (RFS), Member for Bathurst Paul Toole, Superintendent Tom Shirt (RFS), Geoff Ryan RFS), Cr Michael Coote and Jeff Larsen (RFS). Photo: PHILL MURRAY

PARKES: Rotarians, Peter Woods, John Short, Peter Thompson and Cliff Cowell work hard to remove graffiti from a wall in Court Street.

ORANGE: Sandy Ford, Westpac financial planner Julie Niperess with David Meharg and Kate Burke from Organge Health Service (back), and Orange Health Service members Samantha Lyons, Lisa Simpson, Deidre Leslie, Julianne Potts and Lee McCormick (front), are ready to march against sexual violence. Photo: JUDE KEOGH.

WELLINGTON: October is the month of breast cancer awareness and local Pauline Wicks is urging the community to get behind the cause.

BATHURST: TAFE student Leonie Rankin and Family Support case worker Annarelle Channing are helping run the Feed Your Family program at Kelso Public School. Photo: ZENIO LAPKA


 DUBBO: Tom Cavanagh, director of Gold Rhino-winning business EMS Group, says the economic outlook for the region is very promising . Photo: GREG KEEN

NYNGAN: Eric Harland and Dawn Elder in Harland’s lovely garden.


MUDGEE: Rob Morey of Active Lifestyle Estates (left) has provided Mudgee Brewing Co. with a donation for their Melbourne Cup Calcutta. Also pictured are Debbie and Gary Leonard of Mudgee Brewing Co.

ORANGE: Appledale Processors Co-Operative mechanical apprentice David King has been awarded a scholarship to help him through the final year of his apprenticeship. Photo: STEVE GOSCH

BATHURST:  Restoration Appeal chairman Phil Burgett, Bathurst MP and appeal co-patron Paul Toole with art union sponsor Dave Rosconi (seated) at the launch of the new fundraiser.


DUBBO: Chemist Nish Geekiyanage with a pesticide and other chemicals collected during an annual household cleanout. Photo: GREG KEEN


LITHGOW: Medlow Bath's Hydro Majestic gives locals a sneak peak before the grand re-opening



40. ORANGE: Foodservice Central principals, Greg and Jill Peterson, Anthony Ruzgas (who will remain as General Manager), and Michael Peterson. The business will be taken over by national distributor, PFD from this Friday. Photo: Roel ten Cate.


ORANGE: Bletchington Public School students Eliza White, Grace White, Ellie Spencer, Jadyn Slater, Angus Wilson and Mitchell Watts warm up for their practice ahead of the school’s walkathon on Friday. Photo: STEVE GOSCH

OBERON:  Oberon Police Sergeant Shelley Jackson and Inspector Mark Wall from Chifley Local Area Command at a press conference held at Oberon Police Station yesterday to discuss the search for missing bushwalker Sevak Simonian.

BATHURST: Judge Paul Coopes from Stumpy s on Stewart with Carenne School student Jacob Bettles, 14, who was about to cook during yesterday s Western NSW Culinary Challenge at the Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre. Photo: BRIAN WOOD


DUBBO: Sophie Greer, 3, and Jakob Greer, 5, watering the new eco-garden.Photo: GREG KEEN

BATHURST: Eleven Mile Drive resident John Fagan says the popular route for cyclists is dangerous, and it’s only a matter of time before someone is killed or seriously injured. Photo: ZENIO LAPKA

LITHGOW: LIGHT ON THE HILL: Centennial Coal managing director David Moult says the Angus Place Colliery has been mothballed, not shut. Photo: LEN ASHWORTH

ORANGE:  Canobolas Rural Technology High School students Hannah White, Taylor Clark and Larissa Churchill discuss the HSC chemistry exam after it finished yesterday. Photo: STEVE GOSCH

ORANGE: Orange Waratah Sports Club bartender Steve Deebank will take up the challenge and grow a moustache for Movember. Photo: STEVE GOSCH


NARROMINE: Narromine will be more fire-safe this season with funding allocated for new brigade stations and fire trucks, and member for Dubbo Troy Grant is pleased. 

MUDGEE: Michael Pembroke reads an excerpt of his book. Arthur Phillip - Sailor, Mercenary, Governor, Spy, at the National Trust branch lunch on Sunday. 

The Forbes community has come out in support of Molly Ticehurst who was murdered on Monday raising more than $30,000 for her funeral.

Forbes uniting for Molly

Jack, Benjamin, Rebecca and Shirley Michalk. Photo Jenny Kingham

Parkes gathers for Anzac Day services

The late Sue Walker, beloved wife of Peter, loved mother and mother-in-law of Kristy and Damian and Justin and Melissa. Picture supplied

Vale Sue Walker

Carla Mascarenhas

NSW Health Minister Ryan Park. Picture: AAP 

Health Minister Ryan Park says work is 'ongoing' to deliver long-term solutions.

No respite: Government refuses to commit to funding paediatric clinics

Brendan McCool

Leading the grand parade at last year's show were 2022 Cowra Show Young Woman Sarah Wood, 2022 Forbes Young Woman Kelsey Muller and 2023 Forbes Young Woman Elise Dukes File photo.

Forbes Show turns into one-day affair

What's on in and around Forbes and save the date for upcoming events

The week that was | Photos 

Taking a look at the news highlights across the region over the past week through Fairfax Media photographers.

The week that was | Photos

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