We have searched our website and Facebook page and compiled the following selection of the comments you – our readers – made on the biggest and best stories of the week.

Sentinel Property Group managing director and CEO Warren Ebert said this week a unnamed tenant had finally been located after the building had sat idle for several years.

“What an absolutely brilliant couple of weeks for Orange. A big new new private hospital is getting started, the DPI commits to staying and spending $70 million on a new building, the Regional Investment Corporation sets up shop to start handing out $400 million, and there may even be action on the old Bunnings site. There is so many positive things happening right now. Good stuff Orange” – Andrew Tucker

The battle for your pizza order in Orange is set to hot up with Little Caesars announcing it will open in the CBD  on July 30. The company also confirmed it was looking for 15 part-time staff and would also seek a full-time store manager.

“As the self-appointed Lady Mayor of Pizza establishments in Orange, I accept the responsibility of reviewing Little Caesars. If anyone thinks they have spent more on pizza in the last 12 months, please take the wheel … but I feel I was born for this” – Amanda Jeffriess

The Department of Primary Industries’ new home will be the old Orange Base Hospital site in Prince Street. A three-storey office block with a 390-site car park will be built on the site, with work to start early next year.

“Definitely not enough parking spaces considering TAFE will be across the road, as well as specialists/doctors and small businesses in the area. They say that the new building will take up the eastern side of the block. Maybe they should consider using the whole block and create more parking? It’s one of the main problems faced at our current building” – Amanda Wright

Vandals have cut down six large trees with a chainsaw, apparently for firewood, at the Pinnacle Reserve picnic area on Mount Canobolas. One of the trees was about 80 years old, another was burnt at the site, and four of them were green and difficult to burn for a fire.

“There’s no condoning the actions of these irresponsible people, but if there were sensible arrangements that allowed residents to go into NSW National Parks and take away wood from the ground – which needs to be cleared anyway – there would be fewer instances of illegal activities like this” – Walter Tobin

“Annoying”, “hypocritical”, “a money-making decision” – Orange shoppers have reacted angrily to the cessation of free single-use plastic bags in the city’s major supermarkets, with many labeling the policy nothing more than a money-grab by retail giants.

“The main goal of this is to lessen the amount of plastic bags. These bags end up in landfill and oceans, and overall pollute the earth. All these giant supermarkets are businesses at the end of the day – their main goal is to make profits and gain revenue. They saw a business opportunity which allowed them to be more environmentally friendly and to make more profits” – Victoria Fabian

POLICE are investigating the “disturbing and pathetic” shooting of a pony on the weekend. According to NSW Police Rural Crime Investigators between 5pm on Saturday and 9am on Sunday someone shot and killed a three-year-old Welsh Mountain Pony on a Clergate property.

“What's wrong with some people? Seriously. The poor owners. I hope they catch the bastard that did this. If they would shoot this animal, they would shoot others” – Tina Andersen Linnegar