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12 Mar 10 | Sections of the M4 will be closed to traffic from midnight Friday, March 12 to 5am Monday March 15, to allow for the removal of the existing toll plaza canopy.
11 Mar 10 | Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, former opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull, deputy prime minister Julia Gillard, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and Shadow Finance Minister Joe Hockey all cop a roasting in Godzone at Parramatta's Riverside Theatres.
10 Mar 10 | One of the most under-recognised names in the history of NSW is John Joseph Cahill, better known as Joe, or even ``Old Smoothie''. Joe Cahill represented the Cook's River area of Sydney in the NSW parliament between 1925 and 1959.
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10 Mar 10 | PARRAMATTA'S new bishop was ordained last Thursday night before a crowd of more than 1600 Catholics.
10 Mar 10 | STATE Opposition health spokeswoman Jillian Skinner blamed the state government for long waiting times for neurosurgery at Westmead Hospital.
10 Mar 10 | A TSUNAMI could hit Parramatta, a disaster expert has warned.
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10 Mar 10 | HORSE drawn-carts rolled along the dirt track of Hunter Street, the year was 1820 and a small school in the middle of Parramatta took in its first students.
10 Mar 10 | THE Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children has celebrated 150 years by opening a facility that will transform the way its students learn.
10 Mar 10 | FEDERAL Parramatta MP and accomplished pianist Julie Owens will perform at the free Lord Mayor's TOPS Symphony Orchestra concert this Sunday.
10 Mar 10 | Fright for boy
A MAN was charged with indecent assault after he kissed a four-year-old boy in a playground in Church Street Mall last Thursday.
10 Mar 10 | Smokers targeted
FUNDING of $331,298 will go to Parramatta Mission for a project to reduce smoking rates among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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10 Mar 10 | SCIENCE and Medical Research Minister Jodi McKay and the executive director of Multiple Sclerosis Research Australia, Jeremy Wright, have announced $1.4million in funding and a new network to help re
10 Mar 10 | THE launch of Anna Tramonte's support network and crisis accommodation for young single mothers opened last week amid a cloud of financial pressure.
10 Mar 10 | THE world's biggest model guide dog visited Parramatta last week to make the point that guide dogs can go anywhere.
10 Mar 10 | THE University of Western Sydney and World Wildlife Fund Australia (WWF) have announced a research partnership to examine Earth Hour's success and monitor its effects on people's long-term behaviour.
10 Mar 10 | A LIFE-threatening liver disease has meant four-year-old Tianna Zilifian has spent most of her life in hospital, with a liver transplant now her only hope of survival.
10 Mar 10 | NSW Greens MP Lee Rhiannon said the federal government's proposal to filter the internet promoted a false sense of security to parents and would erode free speech.
10 Mar 10 | HOMELESS young people are four times more likely to develop a mental health problem and six times more likely to engage in substance abuse than homeless people aged over 25.
10 Mar 10 | THE Federal Government's hard-sell on health reform saw Parramatta MP Julie Owens visit a busy Westmead Hospital on Friday for talks with the hospital's administrator and patients.
10 Mar 10 | Grants totalling $91,000 were announced for some 25 volunteer organisations in the Parramatta area last week.
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