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VIEW Club celebrates the Smith Family centenary

VIEW Club celebrates the Smith Family centenary

The Narrabri VIEW Club had a special milestone to celebrate on Wednesday, September 28. The club has had a longstanding relationship of 44 years of community service in the Narrabri district working with The Smith Family and this year is commemorating the...

High School reunion – class of 1986

High School reunion – class of 1986

Year 10 students from Narrabri High School 1986, gathered at the Tourist Hotel for a night of celebrations and reminiscing on Saturday, October 1. The occasion was about the fifth reunion in Narrabri for the former students, who have remained a close-knit group for...

School holiday activities at the library

School holiday activities at the library

The Narrabri Shire Library kicked off its recent school holiday activities with the egg carton hothouse on Wednesday, September 28. With seeds supplied by Narrabri Shire Library, five students set about creating a hothouse environment with guidance from Narrabri Shire...

Fantastic blooms at the flower show

Fantastic blooms at the flower show

Organisers of the Narrabri Show Society and Narrabri Garden Club Spring Flower and Rose Show on Saturday were delighted with the quality and number of entries and number of visitors who went along to the show. Visitors saw fantastic flowers and innovative...

The romance of steam revisited

The romance of steam revisited

When heritage rail enthusiasts talk about the romance of the steam train era and ‘the magic of steam’, Narrabri’s George Sanderson knows exactly what they mean. George was a steam locomotive fireman and driver in the 1960s and has fond recollections of those days,...

Pilliga plays a major role in endangered species action

Pilliga plays a major role in endangered species action

The value of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s Pilliga project, a leader in the protection and re-introduction of once locally extinct native animals, has been given further emphasis with the federal government’s launch of the Threatened Species Action Plan which...

Maules Creek celebrates its hall centenary

Maules Creek celebrates its hall centenary

Rain threatened the day’s program of family events at the Maules Creek hall centenary celebration on Saturday, but heavy falls held off and an occasional light shower made no difference to a great day for hundreds of enthusiastic centenary celebrants. Current and...

Flood assistance available

Flood assistance available

Narrabri shire residents can now claim disaster assistance following the recent and continuing floods. The state government has announced that Narrabri Shire is one of 27 local government areas entitled to apply for disaster assistance, including residents, small...

Topical 11/10/22

Asked how his retirement was going, a former student at the recent West Public School reunion commented, “if I had known how good it was, I would never have started work.”

Topical 11/10/22

No one said new technology wouldn’t have its hiccups. About 2000 people in Browns Plains south of Brisbane had their power cut off when a food delivery drone crashed into powerlines on Friday afternoon. Meanwhile, the boom in electric scooters has sadly brought with...

Focus on women’s health

Focus on women’s health

Twenty Boggabri women attended a very informative and sometimes comical presentation on women’s health held at the Boggabri RSL club on Wednesday morning. Presentations were made by Margie Burns, Alvin Hill, Belinda Hood and Carla Twigg. Margie Burns, women’s health...

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