AN UPDATE on the plans for a main street supermarket at the Coonamble Chamber of Commerce meeting on Thursday 6 July sparked a discussion about the potential role of a local community-owned co-operative.
Mayor Tim Horan advised the meeting that Coonamble Shire Council had considered the idea when looking at options to breathe life back into the Coonamble main street but it was thought that the estimated $6million needed to purchase and develop the Sons of the Soil Hotel site as a supermarket with accommodation on the second storey would be "too big an ask . . .
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