Making sense of NDIS
PHOTO: Tanya Whitley, Sharon Tindall, Teagan Harris, Charlotte Banks, Dominique Naye and Lynette Grosser at the Mackillop workshop tailored to helping people better understand the NDIS. LOCAL parents and services …
Taking the broom to local landuse document
LIKE many Local Environment Plans (LEPs) around the state, the document governing landuse across Coonamble Shire needed some tidying up. Coonamble Shire Council has taken a recent opportunity to undertake …
Putting your drought story in print
Stories of hope, hardship and most importantly, resilience, will soon have the chance to be featured in a new book called ‘My Drought Story’ that will be celebrating the courage …
Parts of Pilliga to close for weekend hazard reduction burn
PHOTO: NPWS teams will be conducting hazard reduction burns across hundreds of hectares of the Pilliga this weekend as part of standard preparations for the return of bushfire season. PHOTO: …
NorthWest Vets’ ‘next-gen’ owners
• PHOTO: Scott & Kylie Parry, are handing the reins to NorthWest Vets’ new owners Emily Warner and Charlie Milthorpe. Pictured with popular pooch Norm Glynn. IT WAS a bittersweet …
Tennis Club serves up ideas on precinct Masterplan
• PHOTO: Andrew Fisher, Ron Mackay, Brendan O’Connor, Lisa Wheeler, Colin McMullen and Peter Moppett look at the draft Masterplan document. WANDERERS Tennis Club members met on Saturday 30 July …
Stella Cleary signs off … sort of
• PHOTO: Stella Cleary outside the building where she started her career as Coonamble’s Radiographer more than four decades ago. WHEN she arrived at Coonamble Hospital in February 1981, little …
Gular water mains temporary shutdown
• PHOTO: Plumbing contractors Michael Weldon, Elvy McEwen and Mo Jacobs replacing one of Gulargambone’s water mains last week. By OLIVER BROWN RESIDENTS and businesses in Gulargambone had a nasty …