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Topical 30/4/24

Special guest at Narrabri Anzac Day services was Chief Petty Officer Mark Gibbs. CPO Gibbs has now attended 40 Anzac commemorations. Last year he was in New Zealand’s South Island and participated in an Anzac ceremony there and has taken part in services on land in...

Thumbs up 30/4/24

Thumbs up to last Tuesday’s Anzac Day edition of The Courier, and especially the articles on the Wallaby March and Roy Stanley McGregor and the Anzac Day Tributes page. The tribute that said “Home of the free because of the brave” was spot on.

Baan Baa Anzac Day service 2024

The large crowd of attendees spilled onto the street to commemorate the fallen at the Baan Baa dawn service. Residents of Baan Baa and the Boggabri RSL Sub-branch members felt that it was one of the biggest gatherings for many years with a few saying the largest ever....

Huge attendance again marks the significance of Anzac Day

Anzac Day is Australia’s special day of the year, traditionally recognised by generations as the day on which the community particularly remembers and honours those who served and died in wars. Anzac Day 2024 in Narrabri Shire continued the national tradition of...

Draft masterplan for old NAB building set to be presented to councillors today

The draft masterplan for both the Rose Street and Dangar Park development is set to be presented at Narrabri Shire’s ordinary council meeting today and councillors will decide if they want to endorse it for public exhibition for a period of at least 28 days. Narrabri...

Gunner George Joseph Humphries’ story shared at Wee Waa Anzac Day dawn service 2024

Below is a copy of the speech delivered by Megan Crutcher, Jackson and Chelsea Humphries, and kindly shared with the Wee Waa News. Anzac Day: World War II Veteran – Gunner George Joseph Humphries NX40602 September 1, 1939, marked the start of World War II with the...

Wee Waa community commemorates Anzac Day 2024

As the sun started to rise over the clock tower in Wee Waa last Thursday, a large crowd of about 250 people huddled around the town’s War Memorial for the Anzac Day dawn service. Heads bowed, they paid tribute to and remembered the Anzacs along with those who have...

Narrabri Blue Boars prevail in all three grades during first Dangar Park outing of the season

Narrabri Rugby Club celebrated their first home gameday of the 2024 Central North Rugby Union campaign at Dangar Park with three dominant victories against the Scone Brumbies on Saturday. Narrabri’s women’s team kicked off round four with a 63-14 win before their...

Family and friends remember fair, fuss-free, humorous, and hardworking man | OBITUARY

Wee Waa and District Historical Society and Namoi Echo Museum president Julie Dowleans OAM has paid tribute to the late Brian Warren – a valued volunteer at the museum. “Brian held the position of treasurer of Wee Waa and District Historical Society Inc for what would...

Capturing the glorious life of birds with Narrabri’s Mary Wheeler

Narrabri’s Mary Wheeler captures the remarkable movements of Australian native birds through the lens as a photographer who can only be described as having the patience of a saint. Hours and hours, from anywhere between dawn and dusk is what it often takes to capture...

Narrabri-born Haig ‘Jock’ Logan’s diary sheds light on World War II service

By KATRINA KITTEL Narrabri-born Haig ‘Jock’ Logan NX41219, 2/30 Battalion, was taken prisoner-of-war of the Japanese on February 15, 1942, following the Fall of Singapore. Jock’s wartime diary begins in January 1944, after his work within ‘F’ Force on the...

Future looking bright in Boggabri for rugby league

Before the Boggabri Kangaroos swept the Narrabri Blues in all three grades at Jubilee Oval in round three of the Group 4 Rugby League campaign on Saturday, a group of keen local junior players were put through their paces at the club’s junior training and sign on day....