What do we have for you in this week’s Oban Times newspaper and online?
Remembrance events took place in Oban and across Argyll last weekend, with a fighter jet fly-past, a poignant gathering at The Rockfield Centre marking the 100th anniversary of Oban War Memorial, and hundreds of people gathering for the town’s Remembrance Parade.
An Argyll & Bute Council email has revealed that it could take five or six more years to start ground work to fix Oban’s flood woes. The official email also confirmed that the Lochavullin car park flood pumps are “beyond repair”.
One business owner affected by the floods has claimed the council has breached its responsibility to firms which rent its land and has accused it of “gross negligence”.
A new charity working to improve the experiences of families with children and young people who have additional support needs, wants to hear from local residents.
Elsewhere, the climate crisis has prompted a national park conservation charity to change its stance towards large renewable energy projects.
A new report has found that more than six in 10 LGBTQ+ young people living in rural Scotland feel their local areas are not welcoming places.
An Oban teenager and his friends have smashed a fundraising target to buy goals for their local football pitch in the Longsdale area after a set was vandalised twice.
In other news, the Oban Hospice SuperDraw celebrated its first birthday at the Dove Centre on Stevenston Street.
Plans to demolish Jimmy Savile’s Glencoe holiday house and replace it with a family home honouring a different famous resident have been revealed in an application to Highland Council.
In this week’s Lochaber Times, we also report that Highland councillors have objected to SSEN’s proposals to build a “massive” power line from Fort Augustus to the Isle of Skye.
And a founder of the Kirsty’s Kids charity has gone on hunger strike to protest a Network Rail yard next door, which has driven them to close their respite centre for sick children and their families.
Meanwhile, in the sport, the Oban Ravens Squash Team spread their wings in their annual handicap competition at Atlantis Leisure.
The sun didn’t shine on Oban’s Bob MacIntyre in South Africa as his chase for a place in the world’s top 50 golfers took a serious dent, while Isle of Seil golfers tested themselves in Ballachulish.
We also have shinty and Oban Lorne RFC round-ups in this week’s newspaper, while youngsters tackled hard in the Argyll and Bute Girls Evolution Series in Lochgilphead.
Oban Saints 2010s footballers enjoyed a triumphant return to form at Oban High School and primary seven children from Lochnell and Oban community clubs enjoyed a trip to Newcastle United.