Touch season picking up momentum
• PHOTO: MSG’s Matt Bootes tries to find the gap between Ag n Vet’s Brenton Williams and Charlie Milthorpe. Round five of the Coonamble mixed touch football competition saw plenty …
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Getting the goods on goats
• PHOTO: Happy Boer goats at Jo and Craig Stewart’s property Buena Vista, near Collie. PHOTO: The Gourmet Goat Lady The goat industry is booming in Australia, according to Meat …
Rapid response to coinciding emergency calls
• PHOTO: A call to attend a vehicle fire in the yard of Robert (Octo) Thomas’ business premises coincided with emergency crews attending a rural incident almost 30 kilometres away. …
Do we need a separate ‘department for rural health’?
PHOTO: Medical organisation Ochre Health, which oversees several regional health facilities, including one here in Coonamble, has expressed an openness to discussing the establishment of a department of rural health …
Scientist alarmed over vanishing Pilliga species
• PHOTO: Glossy Black Cockatoos. PHOTO NSW: National Parks and Wildlife Service A zoologist is hoping her observations spur government on to fund more conservation measures to save iconic native …
Teachers put their foot down for Dugald
PHOTO: Members of the NSW Teachers Federation gathered at the office of Dugald Saunders this morning, while the Federation’s Deputy President Henry Rajendra met with him to rally support for …
Finding a home for plant-based proteins
PHOTO: Last year's senate inquiry handed down findings on where plant-based proteins really belong on the supermarket shelf. The Senate Inquiry into meat definitions has come to a conclusion with …
New Walgett residents welcomed
PHOTO: New Walgett resident and high school teacher Alex getting to know fellow members of the Walgett community at the 'Welcome to Walgett Evening' last week. Image courtesy of Walgett …
Pam is Bourke’s OAM recipient
PHOTO: Pam Simpson has called Bourke home since 1957. (Image: Noel Fisher, The Western Herald, Bourke) Bourke local Pam Simpson thought the telephone call announcing recognition of her work in …
Word on the street – International Women’s Day
• PHOTO: Jess Solomon (pictured) and Emily Ryan speak on what International Women's Day means to them. (This is a 2019 news story) March 8th marked the 108th annual International …
Australia’s booming craft economy
• PHOTO: Coonamble ceramicist Anna Kaineder toils away in the Talent Scout Studio. (This is a 2019 news story) While accessible online distribution and social media marketing have powered a …
Association returns to its independent roots
• PHOTO: The newly elected Council of Country Press NSW: [Left to right] Tim Pankhurst (Dubbo), Dave Rankine (Bathurst), Wanda Dunnet (Vice President, Narrabri), Tracy Frazer (Monaro), Lucie Peart (President, …