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Thumbs down to the noisy residents in Kulaba Street. Would you please tone down the language and keep the partying down from midnight? There are other residents who wish to sleep. Do your parties really need to go from dark to well into daylight including the weekends?

Thumbs down 21/1/2020

Thumbs down to the white median line which has been painted on the new walk and cycle path along the creek. Do we really need this? In Narrabri? Really?

Topical 21/1/2020

Smell the rain. There is a special word for the smell of rain on dry ground - ‘petrichor.’ The word comes from Greek petra meaning “stone”, and ichor, the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology. The term was coined in 1964 by two Australian...

Topical 21/01/2020

Veganism is gathering momentum in Australia and around the world, but cows, sheep and chooks shouldn’t start planning for the future just yet. The demand for beef etc. remains high. The interesting aspect of veganism, and indeed vegetarianism, is that plant based...

Topical 21/01/2020

A Topical reader comments that his timber house has fallen silent since the rain. “As it dried out over the years the floor boards and everything else was creaking loudly as I moved around,” he said. “Now the boards seem to have absorbed moisture and are back to...

We can’t get enough of this wet stuff, please send more!

Patchy rain across Narrabri Shire at the end of last week and over the weekend delivered falls ranging from very heavy to just a few millimetres and even zero. Falls in some parts of the Shire were minimal, others torrential. “It's fantastic, I'm even happy to...

Smoke causes Coles evacuation

It’s believed an ‘air-conditioning failure’ caused the evacuation of staff and customers from Coles supermarket in Narrabri, last Thursday. Narrabri Fire and Rescue Station Commander Shane Bradford said the evacuation happened after the “sighting and smell of smoke”...

Major upgrade for Australia Telescope

CSIRO has announced a major, $2.6 million upgrade of the Australia Telescope Compact Array at Culgoora. The ATCA has been one of the top radio telescopes in the world since it began operations in September 1988. Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure,...

Boggabri Kangaroos making major off season moves

The Boggabri and District Rugby League Football Club is putting together a solid roster as the 2020 Group Four Rugby League season approaches. The club held its sign-on day late last year and announced that Shane Rampling would return for a third season as first grade...

Narrabri Shire Sports awards nominees named

The Narrabri Shire Sports Awards event for 2019 will be held in conjunction with the Narrabri Shire Australia Day Awards on Sunday, January 26, at the Narrabri Golf Club with all the eight award categories and the Narrabri Shire Sportsperson of the Year up for grabs....

Coach Connell pleased with super Stingrays at Gunnedah

The success of the 2019-20 summer swimming season continued for the Narrabri Stingrays Swimming Club on Saturday. Eighteen Stingrays swimmers travelled to Gunnedah for the Swimming Gunnedah Long Course Qualifying meet at the Gunnedah Memorial Pool. Stingrays head...

Six washouts – and what they mean for Narrabri cricket

There were six Narrabri District Cricket Association T20 matches scheduled to be played across Friday and Saturday, but none went ahead after some much-needed rain meant that the NDCA curators were unable to prepare wickets on Collins Park and Hogan Oval. On Friday...