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PHOTO: Works to repair Coonamble roads damaged by the flooding event in March 2021 have received close to $2 million for repairs. Image supplied. By OLIVER BROWN COONAMBLE has been successful in obtaining close to $2 million to help bring roads damaged by heavy rain earlier this year … [Read more...] about Disaster relief funding to repair flood-damaged rural roads

PHOTO: Will Moss assesses the damage after 135mm of rain. PHOTO SUPPLIED. By LAURA WILLIAMS RAINFALL spread across the state last week, and parts of the Coonamble area received a dumping. Just a couple of weeks after the last good soaking, storms again brought big falls in the northern … [Read more...] about Soaking slows harvest

PHOTO: Local café operators Ahmad Karanouh and Janice Al Habbas have found it difficult to manage potential customers who refuse to show their proof of vaccination. By OLIVER BROWN AS RESTRICTIONS continue to ease for NSW residents who are fully-vaccinated, businesses across the Coonamble … [Read more...] about Vaccination mandate difficult to enforce

PHOTO: From tightrope walking to aerial acrobatics, Coonamble residents would be forgiven for thinking a group of backpackers exercising in Smith Park last week were practising a circus routine. By OLIVER BROWN PEOPLE walking by Smith Park recently may have wondered if the circus had come … [Read more...] about Backpackers’ work/life balance

PHOTO: Community members and staff of Coonamble LALC and Murdi Paaki Services, plus Murdi Paaki Regional Assembly Chairperson (back row, far right) gathered at Coonamble Bowling Club last week to discuss Aboriginal housing. LOCAL Aboriginal community members were invited to join in a discussion … [Read more...] about Planning for housing needs of Aboriginal community

PHOTO: Council’s water treatment facility in Yarran St, Coonamble. ONE of the challenges facing Coonamble Shire Council as managers of the town water supplies to each of the district's communities, is ensuring that water is available where and when it is needed, especially during dry … [Read more...] about Where does our water go?

PHOTO: The external view of the new Western Cancer Centre in Dubbo that will increase capacity and services for cancer patients in the regions. Image supplied by NSW and Federal Government.   By OLIVER BROWN CANCER PATIENTS from remote communities across central west NSW now have a … [Read more...] about Long-awaited Western Cancer Centre now open

PHOTO: Prue Cullen, Jamie-Lea Trindall, Anna Kaineder, Kevin ‘Sooty’ Welsh, Kookie Atkins and Sue Webb from the Coonamble Arts Alive Society are thrilled to finally have a kiln back in their studio after being without one for around six months. The new kiln arrived last week and was connected to … [Read more...] about Coonamble ceramic artists fired up and ready to go with new kiln

PHOTO: Coonamble High School Principal Stewart Vidler and Coonamble Public School Principal Annette Thomson inspect new teacher housing currently being built on Yarran Street.   By OLIVER BROWN   THE EXECUTIVE Principals from Coonamble Public and High schools are looking … [Read more...] about New teacher accommodation takes shape

PHOTO: Local business owner Lissa Pennell says she has not even had to think about mandating vaccinations for her staff, but she does wonder how difficult it will be to ensure patrons are vaccinated when the government’s roadmap to freedom comes into effect. By OLIVER BROWN   ALTHOUGH … [Read more...] about Local businesses weigh in on mandatory vaccinations