Singleton backing local business amid COVID-19 pandemic
July 30, 2021
Singleton is backing their local businesses to help them through the impacts of the latest COVID-19 pandemic.
Singleton Council is teaming up with the Singleton Business Chamber to provide support and assistance to businesses who are feeling the impacts of the travel restrictions in Greater Sydney.
Vicki Brereton, Council’s Director Organisation and Community Capacity said Council’s economic development team had rounded up information about government support packages in an easy, one-stop location on Council’s website, and was working with the Chamber to provide practical assistance with one-on-one business support programs.
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Standing on a hill overlooking the sprawling maze of paddocks heâs worked all his 71 years, Ian Moore rattles off the names of Nationals MPs heâs supported in the Upper Hunter during his 50 years as a member of the party.
Col Fisher, the local MP for 18 years from 1970, lived just over the hill from Mooreâs farm in Jerrys Plains, a tiny village west of Singleton. Fisher was âan honourableâ man, he remembers. So too George Souris, who held the seat from 1988 until his retirement in 2015. âA gentleman,â Moore says.
More recently though? Of Michael Johnsen â who resigned in March in the wake of accusations he raped a sex worker in the Blue Mountains in 2019 â accusations he strenuously denies â the less said the better. And Dave Layzell, the candidate preselected to replace Johnsen at next Saturdayâs byelection? Well, heâs just not sure.
The Shooters Fishers and Farmers has announced Sue Gilroy as the party's candidate for the Upper Hunter by-election, in Singleton today. Mrs. Gilroy is the President of the Singleton Business Chamber, and has worked in mining and nursing. She says the Upper Hunter has been a safe seat for t . by Lauren Kempe | NBN News-News, Sport & Weather
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