A decision on the proposed Santos $3.5 billion Narrabri Gas Project in Pilliga forest is just weeks away. The final determination on the project should be made by the Independent Planning Commission by Friday, September 4. The NSW Department of Planning, Industry and...
The NSW Government closed the state’s border with Victoria yesterday, with strict penalties in place for anyone who breaches the new rules. The temporary closure came into effect from 12.01am Wednesday, July 8, with both NSW Police and the Australian Defence Force...
Indigenous knowledge and agricultural science are uniting to help support a renaissance in Aboriginal agriculture in western NSW. The winners will include farmers looking for additional income streams. In a glorious mess of flour, culture and ideas, a group of 20...
The 2020 Narrabri and District Junior Rugby League under-13s side has been the benchmark of its age group in the north west in recent years and now the young guns are ready for a new challenge. The junior Blues will compete as an internationals team for the first time...
Narrabri has a new community organisation with plans to embrace a wide spectrum of practical, creative and educational interests for women from 15 years upwards. The new group is the Namoi Women’s Shed. It was formed on February 22, with the attendance of 40 women...
Thumbs up to the band providing the live music in Maitland street on Saturday morning. It brings a good vibe and atmosphere to the main street.
Thank you to whoever designed and built the ramp in the northern end of Maitland Street. Having negotiated the monstrosity in the middle of the road, I was aiming my walking frame towards it when a vehicle rendered it useless. Genius.
Thumbs Down to the drivers in town cutting corners. Do you want the silent cops back? and Thumbs Down to the drivers who indicate right on the corner they are turning into. The road rules state the distance for indicating is 30 metres prior to turning.
Wee Waa Showground is set to benefit from the NSW Government’s COVID-19 stimulus package and receive $28,853 to resheet roadways. NSW Upper House MP Sam Farraway recently announced $332,511 in further improvement works to local showgrounds. Mr Farraway said Wee Waa,...
It was good news that Sporties, formerly Narrabri Bowling Club, will reopen for business after being in voluntary administration. As the Administrator noted, the club is a great asset in a growing town and would lend itself to amalgamation with another club.
‘Unprecedented’ is a word commonly used nowadays in the context of COVID-19. But we can’t use it in terms of the NSW-Victoria border closure - the border was last closed in 1919 to try and stop the Spanish Flu pandemic spreading.
“People need to be careful with their choice of words nowadays, and also retrospectively,” a reader says. “The reported resignation of a Boeing executive has been welcomed after he was found to have ‘opposed women in combat 33 years ago’. And Scrabble players’...