Lithgow Local News

Lithgow Local News is part of the Blue Mountains Planetary Health Initiative, a collaboration to reduce the risk of future disasters by expanding local communications – from the Lower Mountains to Lithgow. This site links storytellers with community, highlighting grassroots local solutions. Our stories help us connect.

Chantelle’s Garden Journey

Chantelle Cambridge recently presented the final in a series of gardening talks hosted by Lithgow Library Learning Centre. Standing in the shade of fifty-year-old elms in a flowery white dress, she was Instagram perfect, but the journey that led her here would have flattened many.

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Citizen Science at Lake Pillans

In April the Maldhan Ngurr Ngurra Lithgow Transformation Hub launched its first citizen science activity for 2023: the Lake Pillans BioBlitz. I spoke with Alice Blackwood, ecologist and Field Technician at Western Sydney University about citizen science and their findings at Lake Pillans.

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