PHOTO: Overall winner Kathy Colwell with her 1977 Torana. The sun was shining and the golf club carpark was full to the brim with auto enthusiasts at this year's Coonamble Car Show on Saturday 16 September. The all-day event drew a crowd of around 200 who came down to the Coonamble Golf Club … [Read more...] about Auto Club put on a show
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Last Hurrah for CHS BAC Team
PHOTO: The Coonamble High School BAC Team, Paul Blattman, Nicole Fester, Dakota Jackson, Oscar Macrae, Adam Macrae (front), Aaron Hegarty, Natalie Gallen, Emily Gallen, Angus Johnson, Brock Sternbeck, Alex Hegarty, Claire Hopkins with the winning cattle in Glen Innes over the weekend In their … [Read more...] about Last Hurrah for CHS BAC Team
Visiting editor explores ‘locum’ option with Coonamble Times
It is a long way from Kiama to Coonamble, but our visiting team member for this edition says she has learnt so much about our community in just a week. Cathy Law – the founding publisher and editor of The Bugle, a newspaper that serves the Kiama LGA – and our Editor Lee O’Connor became friends … [Read more...] about Visiting editor explores ‘locum’ option with Coonamble Times
Brigidines will return to celebrate 140 years
PHOTO: The Australian Brigidine Pioneers. L-R Back: Mary Catherine Bergin, Mary de Sales Maher & Mary Stanislaus Hayden. L-R Front: Mary Ignatius Fitzpatrick, Mary John Synan & Mary Gertrude Banahan ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY years ago, Coonamble saw the arrival of the six pioneering Sisters … [Read more...] about Brigidines will return to celebrate 140 years
Big boomerang on its way back
PHOTO: Matt Boney has started his newest project - bringing back Coonamble’s Big Boomerang. By LIAM MULHALL COONAMBLE’S Big Boomerang is on its way back! The ten-metre long and three-metre tall boomerang had been sitting in Coonamble Shire Council’s storage yard rusting away when local … [Read more...] about Big boomerang on its way back
Coonamble community creates CAHS’ history
PHOTO: Front page in August 2007 at the official opening of the CAHS clinic in Tooloon Street. Practice Manager Fran Mooy, Kevin Arrowsmith, Kelly Hodges, Ted Fernando, CEO Rebecca Dawson and Wayne Fernando. THE Coonamble Aboriginal Health Service marked a major milestone on Friday night 11 … [Read more...] about Coonamble community creates CAHS’ history
Maree shares her journey as Jessica’s mum
PHOTO: CWA members Helen Nalder, Amanda Colwell, Tracie Bromhead, Marion Murray, Maree Crawford (guest speaker), Felicity Keady, Charmaine Ryan, Elise Ward, Chandra Raja, Raquel Pickering, Kerry Edmonds, Ange Thompson, Lenore Green, Jane Sawyer and Sharon Single at the Coonamble CWA Rooms following … [Read more...] about Maree shares her journey as Jessica’s mum
Coonamble, the C.D.E.P. and ‘Crossing Cultures
PHOTO: Barbara Jackson now lives in Melbourne where she spent the long pandemic lockdown piecing together her book: ‘Crossing Cultures’. IT'S NOT every day that your town appears in a book but hot off the press is a 266 page book that is both a personal memoir and a social commentary including a … [Read more...] about Coonamble, the C.D.E.P. and ‘Crossing Cultures
End of an era for popular local accountancy firm
PHOTO: Long term business partners Geoff Secombe and Naomi Coghill are parting ways with Naomi set to ‘retire’ and the accountancy firm merging with a Dubbo-based company in order to boost their human resources. Also pictured are some of the remaining staff members Raj Nawarah, Julie Forsyth and … [Read more...] about End of an era for popular local accountancy firm
Council commits to Brigidine memorial
PHOTO: Mary Skuthorp and Mayor Tim Horan at Coonamble Shire Council’s empty block on Aberford St, soon to be transformed into a commemoratie space for the Brigidine Sisters 140th anniversary. by LIAM MULHALL IN preparation for the Brigidine sisters’ 140th anniversary celebrations in September … [Read more...] about Council commits to Brigidine memorial
