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Funds for Culgoora Road repairs

Funds for Culgoora Road repairs

The NSW government will fund the repair bill for damage to Culgoora Road caused by increased heavy vehicle traffic in recent weeks. Heavy vehicles travelling between Narrabri and Wee Waa have been diverted to Culgoora Road after the Kamilaroi Highway was closed to...

Charlie’s Charts 22nd June 2022

Charlie’s Charts 22nd June 2022

The local market is having another positive day after a week of red ink after breaking down out of a bearish flag pattern. A weekly chart of the local market shows we are at some trend line support and a probable horizontal support zone. How long this current low...

Tourist Hotel is the 2022 Super Rugby Competition winner

Tourist Hotel is the 2022 Super Rugby Competition winner

The Tourist Hotel is the winner of the The Courier Super Rugby Combined Competition 2022. The Tourist’s tipster was Morgan Jones. The Tourist scored 152 points and was closely followed by B and W Rural in second place on 150 points. Outlook Ag was third placed with...

Highway traffic diverted following mishap

Highway traffic diverted following mishap

Highway traffic through Narrabri was diverted for seven hours on Saturday afternoon after a low loader carrying a huge hydraulic mining shovel suffered a mechanical fault and came to a halt. The load travelling north with a prime mover front and rear came to a stop...

Business awards to return

Business awards to return

In another welcome return to post-COVID normalcy, the annual Narrabri District Chamber of Commerce Whitehaven Coal Business Awards dinner is on again. Chamber president Russell Stewart said he was delighted to confirm that the awards presentation dinner, traditionally...

Topical 21/6/22

No surprises here - the Australian Bureau of Meteorology predicts the July to September rainfall is likely to be above median for much of Australia.

Topical 21/6/22

There was a flurry of phone calls as word spread that the parking inspector was busy in Maitland Street last week. Even the suggestion that the PI was at work was enough to cause a swift movement of vehicles.

Thumbs down 21/6/22

Thumbs down to exorbitant increases in the price of electricity. I received a notice to say my peak usage rate would increase by almost 30 per cent.

Thumbs up 21/6/22

Thumbs up to the organisers of the brilliant Rowena Cracker Night. It was great to see the event, and so many others, make a remarkable comeback after a COVID hiatus.

Investor buys Woolworths Narrabri supermarket site

Investor buys Woolworths Narrabri supermarket site

Woolworths Narrabri supermarket has a new owner. The property sold for $16,500,000 in an off-market transaction managed by Savills’ agents Peter Tyson and Jon Tyson on behalf of Whistle Funds Management to an undisclosed Melbourne-based private investor. The choice of...

Countdown to post COVID kiosk opening

Countdown to post COVID kiosk opening

The doors are re-opening for businesses and services as the pandemic closures recede. Narrabri Health Services kiosk, a much-valued service for patients, staff and visitors at the hospital, is being prepared for re-opening by Narrabri Hospital Auxiliary volunteers....

Boggabri Kangaroos score a ‘gutsy’ Collins Park victory

Boggabri Kangaroos score a ‘gutsy’ Collins Park victory

Boggabri and District Rugby League Football Club’s first grade side scored one of the gutsiest wins that its proud coach Shane Rampling said he had ever seen in his coaching career when the Kangaroos beat the Narrabri Blues 22-16 at Collins Park on Sunday. The...

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