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During the week beginning 9th September, there were celebrations on the Island to mark the completion of the Lord Howe Island airstrip in September, 1974. Around 50 members of the Australian army and navy, with family members, who were part of the project, visited to mark the anniversary.

The Clarence Valley has been named the third most affordable sea change region in NSW based on median house prices and median local income as hundreds of families annually move from the cities in search of a more relaxed lifestyle. The Regional Australia Institute compared median home prices and median local incomes in each local government area of the regions and capital cities, plus the distance to the coast, the distance to national parks and the economic diversity of each area and published the information in its Good Life Guide last Tuesday.

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The dimensions surrounding the club’s premier event became a great deal clearer when Prime Impact stormed to victory in the WIN Network Port Macquarie Cup Prelude on a successful resumption to racing at the circuit last Sunday. With the first two placegetters gaining exemptions in the final field for the $200,000 Port Cup to be conducted on Friday week and the opportunity for qualification into the massive prizemoney pool available for The Big Dance at Randwick on Melbourne Cup Day, there was a at stake.

Planting is underway across much of Australia’s cotton growing regions with some crops already out of the ground in warmer climates, some growers holding back for warmer weather while some in tropical areas won’t be planting until rain begins to fall. Cotton Australia General Manager Michael Murray said the signs for this season are positive with Australia’s 1500 cotton growers, 90 per cent of them family farmers...

Quilts but not as you know them. Kyogle Quilters Group has an exhibition at the Roxy Gallery in Kyogle that is full of colour, intricate stitching, imagination and a few surprises. Everything you thought you knew about quilting will be upturned at the  Quilts – we’ve got you covered  exhibition running until October 13.

Residents of South Hay have been surprised by the sudden appearance of a deer in the street. The animal was spotted in Lang Street, hopping from garden to garden, though the grounds of Comfort Inn Bishop's Lodge Motel, before heading along the busy Sturt Highway.

Independent Member for Murray, Helen Dalton, says a new Water Register she has convinced the NSW Government to introduce will help stop money laundering as well as the secret purchase of Australian water by foreign governments. She introduced the bill to parliament late last year, with the aim to force NSW politicians to declare their water interests on our conflict-of-interest form.

For two years, people have been living free of charge in temporary housing villages known as pods. The 11 housing pod villages including ones at Coraki and Evans Head were set up after the 2022 flood disaster in response to the housing crisis.

After a full reconstruction to the Port Macquarie course proper necessitating a break of fifteen months, racing returns with Prime Impact poised to deliver in the Win Network Port Macquarie Cup Prelude on Sunday ... With stakes earnings of over $100,000 after three wins and six placings in a relatively short career, Prime Impact holds the keys to Sunday’s feature.

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The NSW Government is getting on the front foot ahead of bushfire season with helicopter inspections underway on fire trails across the state to prioritise maintenance work ... Helicopter-based inspections are considered more efficient than ground patrols by vehicles, particularly in remote and less-accessible areas, and reduce check times from months to weeks.

Sean Cunningham. The decision to keep Lockhart Airstrip opened has proved to be a good one with a group of workers regularly toiling hard to maintain it. Early last year, Lockhart Shire Council was considering closing the airstrip, however after many submissions were received requesting council to reconsider its proposal, council agreed by resolution to continue with the lease of the airstrip.

Former Narrandera resident now painter Tim Snowdon has had a fulfilling life as a talented painter, dipping his brush in many different genres over time: still life, landscape, contemporary, traditional, portraiture – and of course houses. He doesn’t paint pictures of houses, he paints houses. Literally.

Police have raided the newly opened ‘Quick Stop Convenience Store’ in King George Street, Cohuna, seizing illicit tobacco products and arresting a woman. Police officers from Kerang, Cohuna and Koondrook executed a warrant at the tobacconist, which sells children’s toys front of house...

Andrew Mole. The Rotary Club of Kerang’s annual spelling bee was back big time – and you could feel the buzz around this month’s 25/27th anniversary event. A hugely popular primary school showdown, pre-Covid-19, it was regularly pulling 90 or more contestants from years 4, 5 and 6 in schools across Gannawarra Shire.

Andrew Mole. Everything and everyone are raring to go for the 2024 Moama Bowling Club Gunbower Gold Cup on Saturday, October 5. When the horses jump for the $30,000 race, it will be the first time in five years it has been successfully run.

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