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Something In The Water, Headford’s community arts festival, is returning for its fourth consecutive year, running from Wednesday, September 30th, to Sunday, October 4th. The five-day programme will bring music, theatre, literature, film, dance and visual art to venues in the North Galway town, including utilising vacant premises that will be reinvigorated for the festival.

Volunteers in Portumna and Tuam have put their communities in the spotlight during a two-day judging visit for the IPB Pride of Place competition. Pride of Place adjudicators Tom Dowling and Peter Hynes visited Portumna on Monday before travelling to Tuam on Tuesday, where they met volunteers, community groups, young people and local organisations.

Cathaoirleach of Galway County Council Andrew Reddington has welcomed the completion of an Active Travel project in Headford saying the works will strengthen the case for planning permission for a new secondary school in the town.

Sparkcatchers! in Tuam have been awarded a total of €24,280 through the Arts Council’s Youth Ensembles Scheme.

Representatives from Tuam are in Germany this week to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the town’s twinning partnership with the Bavarian city of Straubing.

The editor of the Galway Advertiser, Declan Varley has won an international award for editorial writing.

Slimming World members across Galway, Tuam, Claregalway, and Killannin have once again demonstrated the power of community spirit, raising more than €16,000 for the Irish Cancer Society through this year’s Big Slimming World Clothes Throw.

A young Tuam man was ordered by a Judge at the local Court to hawk his CV around to every business in the town seeking work, and to come back before the Court again with proof that he had done so.

“I know now where Phoenix magazine got their ‘Bog Cuttings’ title from” a Judge quipped when a solicitor produced two sods of turf as evidence in a case involving a dispute over the quality of turf sold and a refusal to pay for it.

“She got a chance and I can’t give her another,” was the response of a Judge to a plea for leniency when dealing with a young woman who pleaded guilty to a theft charge.