From the Maitland Mercury report:
Maitland has come away with one first place and was highly commended in three categories at the weekend’s Tidy Towns, Sustainable Communities Awards.
Hunter Valley Steamfest took out the Cultural Heritage Award category, in which the Look Who’s Talking Local History program was also highly commended.
The Les Darcy Family Vault restoration project was highly commended in the Bush Spirit category, and improvements to Morpeth Museum were highly commended in the Heritage Building Restoration category.
Full article available at Maitland Mercury, 07 Nov, 2011.