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Topical 31/10/19

There is plenty of opportunity to build domestic tourism to places like Narrabri Shire. A study commissioned by online travel site Wotif shows that on average Australians have visited fewer than one per cent of the 15,268 towns, cities and suburbs that dot the country...

Topical 31/10/19

A reader has responded to the letter in last week’s Courier from a resident seeking an answer to chronic itching problems. Our correspondent has a possible solution: ‘Bicarb soda’ she said. “Get some from the supermarket, make it into a paste and put it all over...

Firefighters battling bushfires across NSW

Firefighters and emergency services have been mobilised across NSW to fight the current outbreaks of bushfires. Narrabri Fire and Rescue personnel Jason Anderson and Shane Bradford have recently been working at the Glen Innes Fire Control Centre, undertaking a five...

Narrabri Public School fete

Rain was predicted, and didn’t come apart from a few spots, but the dust did come on Saturday afternoon as the biennial Narrabri Public School Fete was held. But the dust and wind did not deter the Fete goers from the school community. “We had an amazingly fantastic...

Thumbs Down 31/10/19

Thumbs down to the bare, dry plots in the middle rows at the lawn cemetery. The sprays are in the wrong positions and hit trees and don’t water the middle plots. Also the wastage of water on the roads is a disgrace out there, same problem - sprays in wrong position....

Thumbs down 31/10/19

Thumbs down to those who remove the light (small) shopping trollies from a local supermarket and don’t return them. For many of us for various reasons, the big trolleys are too heavy, too cumbersome, too awkward to use in the aisles and too difficult to put groceries...

Bush dancing away the drought blues in Wee Waa

Two hundred people from around the district ‘boot scooted’ away the drought blues at the Namoi Valley Christian School’s Wee Waa and Community Bush Dance, held on Saturday evening. “We’ve had a great turnout and not just people from Wee Waa, there’s people from...

Good luck to shire’s Year 12 students

To commence my column this week, I would like to wish all Narrabri Shire year 12 students who started their Higher School Certificate on Thursday, October 17, and will continue until the last day of exams on Monday, November 11, all the very best in successfully...

Janice Anderson celebrates 50 years in nursing

Janice O’Connor began work at Narrabri Hospital on October 3, 1969, embarking on what became a nursing career she has loved and which has yielded life long friendships. Janice - who long ago became Janice Anderson - has now celebrated 50 years in the nursing...

Charlie’s Charts 30th October 2019

The local market has been steadily creeping up over the past week and is yet to break out of the larger 400 point sideways range. We bought 10 ASX200 cfd’s ahead of a potential breakout after a small ABC type pattern. The bigger range down today may form another...

Cartoon 30/10/19

Razorbacks hammer Civeo to continue momentum

The Western Imperial Razorbacks’ first XI scored a second straight win in the Narrabri District Cricket Association first grade one day competition on Saturday when it defeated Civeo Cricket Club by 96 runs. The round three match was played at Leitch Oval and saw the...