Every day this week you will find the Red Cross volunteers stationed outside MJ’s Newsagency raising money for Red Cross Calling. The Australian branch of Red Cross began on 13 August 1914, nine days after the outbreak of WWI. At the time, hundreds of thousands of...
Early voting for the NSW Election has started in Narrabri with a pre-poll centre opening at the Narrabri Aquatic Centre. Pre-poll voting is being conducted in the multi-purpose room which is accessed from the car park. The centre opened on Saturday morning and will be...
Narrabri Dolphins Water Polo Club president Dean Clarke recently ran a session for school students of both Narrabri High School and Wee Waa High School to introduce teenagers to the game. The founder and president of the recently formed club put a keen group of...
A NSW Labor government would contribute $60,000 towards accessibility improvements at Gately Field, the party’s Barwon candidate announced on Thursday. Funds would be used towards disabled toilet facilities as well as improving accessibility at the facility. Labor’s...
A pedestrian suffered minor injuries after being struck by a car as part of a two-vehicle accident on Dangar Street. On March 8 at 1.30pm, two vehicles travelling in the same direction collided when the front vehicle stopped to allow pedestrians to cross the road. The...
Narrabri High School student Eryn Parkes artwork ‘Mooshie’ has been selected as the feature artwork on this year’s ‘Let’s Hang It! 2023’ flyer. The University of New England School Acquisitive Art Prize (UNESAP) and Let’s Hang It! exhibition was established in 2004 by...
The 1988 indigenous Australian cricket team and their supporters are heading back to the Western Victorian town of Edenhope, 35 years after a momentous cricket tour in England. And one of the instigators and organisers of the tour was Narrabri resident Les Knox, who...
Tuesday, November 16, 1982 The New Kings Jewellers in Narrabri has acquired a licence to deal in second hand antiques, a field which traditionally interests the lover of fine workmanship as well as the buyer who recognises genuine antiques as a sound commercial...
By Fay Barrett The picturesque steel and timber Bailey Bridge spanning Bullawa Creek on the Eulah Creek Road for just over seventy years is soon to be replaced. She has served us faithfully, standing tall, reigning through years of drought and over roaring, raging...
Narrabri FC reached the final four of the 2023 Johnson Cup tournament on Saturday but went down in the semi-final against its Namoi Soccer League rivals Inverell FC at the Gipps Street Fields in Tamworth. The club returned to the Northern Inland Football pre-season...
Here we go again! Enid Blyton’s Famous Five series is the latest to be attacked by censorship, with some phrases to be reworded so they will be more suitable for today’s young readers. These books were written in the 1930s and were relevant to the times, which is how...
Feral cats are the current Country Women’s Association (CWA) of NSW pest project and we would like to draw attention to the damage they do to our native wildlife. Cats hunting in the wild are a huge threat to our native animals. In Australia cat number estimates vary...