New teacher accommodation takes shape
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 …
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Local businesses weigh in on mandatory vaccinations
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 …
Tell ’em they’re dreaming: Caton on CSG
PHOTO: Michael Caton chats to Coonamble’s Ann Kennedy at the Terminus Hotel during filming on 9 July. ON 9 July, exactly two years after iconic Australian actor Michael Caton …
Ned’s lockdown fitness
PHOTO: International rugby player Ned Hanigan has been using his imagination to engineer some weights from things he’s found around the family farm near Hollywood. KEEPING fit during lockdown …
Local volunteers the backbone of state testing
PHOTO: Koonambil residents have joined the packing effort and are consistently contributing a large number of testing kits to the cause. By LAURA WILLIAMS WITH Covid testing efforts …
Salute to Bill Crowe
PHOTO: A young Bill Crowe during his WWII service, when he fought and was injured in New Guinea. His good nature endeared him to friends, neighbours and the wider community …
Punters pleased with pop-up Picnics
PHOTO: Happy punters Oliver Brown, Joel Gosden, Josh Wrench, JJ Munton, Rodney Pittman and Ned Savimaki (front) at the Picnic Races held at Coonamble Racecourse on Saturday 7 August. …
Essential food deliveries at risk if ‘funding boost’ backfires
PHOTO: An essential service and more than just a meal. Norm (Pickles) Fulmer on duty for Meals on Wheels Coonamble. MEAL providers who deliver regular meals to frail and …
‘Most’ customers COVID compliant
PHOTO: Ken (Jughead) and Kim McKeown from McKeown’s Store say their local customers are getting increasingly frustrated by the state government’s statewide mandatory mask wearing and electronic or manual check-ins. …
House hunting gets harder for local renters
PHOTO: Coonamble real estate agents say there is a distinct lack of suitable housing availability in town, particularly for people looking for rental options. By OLIVER BROWN THE INCREASE in …
Private power poles not a ‘gift’
LANDOWNERS in the Coonamble area have discovered that they are now responsible for at least some of the repairs and maintenance to the poles, wires and other electricity infrastructure on …
Mice numbers back on the rise?
By OLIVER BROWN ALTHOUGH the district has entered the coldest months of the year, local farmers are concerned about a potential resurgence of the mouse plague. Coonamble farmer James Nalder …