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City of Mount Gambier Citizen of the Year Awards 2023 nominations are now open.If you know an individual, organisation, group or event that has made an outstanding and impactful contribution to our local community outside their regular employment, this is your opportunity to show them that they’re truly appreciated and nominate them for the 2023 Citizen of the Year Awards. Read full article

Bestselling award-winning author Tricia Stringer will launch her latest novel, Keeping Up Appearances, at the Mount Gambier Library on Thursday 13 October at 7:00pm. Read full article

Council will open the Blue Gum Trail in Mount Gambier’s Crater Lake precinct Thursday, 28 September, following the Crater Lakes fire in January this year. Read full article

Rosangela Garofalo Crispino's fourteen-year dream has become a reality as she launches her children's picture book Alina Piccolina and her adventures with Zietta on Thursday 29 September at 7:00pm at City Hall, The Riddoch Arts & Cultural Centre. Read full article

Mayor of Mount Gambier Mrs Lynette Martin OAM was joined today at Elizabeth Knight Reserve by Mr Tony Pasin, Member for Barker and Travis Fatchen on behalf of Mr Troy Bell, Member for Mount Gambier, and other dignitaries to lay a wreath to celebrate the life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II following her passing on 8 September 2022. Read full article

Entries are now open for the 2022 NF McDonnell and Sons Mount Gambier Christmas Parade. This year’s event will be held on Saturday 19 November 2022. Read full article

The Prime Minister has announced that the National Day of Mourning on 22 September 2022 will be recognised as a National public holiday. The day coincides with the National Memorial Service in Australia. Read full article

To celebrate the Platinum Jubilee marking 70 years of service of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, the City of Mount Gambier and children from Reidy Park Primary School planted trees at the Elizabeth Knight Reserve on 5 September 2022. Read full article

Bestselling author Meredith Appleyard returns to the Mount Gambier Library on Tuesday 20 September at 7:00pm with the launch of her seventh book ‘Becoming Beth’. Read full article

At the close of nominations at 12 noon on Tuesday 6 September 2022 one candidate nominated for the position of Mayor of the City of Mount Gambier, and 18 candidates nominated for eight Councillor positions. Read full article