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Medical students go rural
01 Feb 12 | MEDICAL students from James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland, spent four weeks helping patients at the Campbell Town Health and Community Centre. The third year students have been minglin
01 Feb 12 | REGGAE music will fill the gardens at Woolmers Estate when Shakespeare in the Gardens' production "Twelfth Night" moves in for a day-time performance. Director Chris Hamley said Twelfth Night was
01 Feb 12 | THE need for designated overnight camping areas for campervans and motorhomes has been fulfilled with the council identifying three suitable areas. Signs advising of the areas have already been er
Hall gets a needed makeover
01 Feb 12 | THE Guide Hall at Campbell Town is a shadow of its former self as a $120,000 renovation nears completion. The Northern Midlands Council renovation project will be completed this month. Pri
01 Feb 12 | SEE an empty wrapper and pick it up. That is the message springing forth in the lead-up to the 2012 Clean Up Australia Day on March 4. The Clean Up team want you to register a clean-up sit
01 Feb 12 | Father and son duo Rino and Jade Morea will hit Evandale next month to perform at the Evandale Village Fair. Rino and his wife Kerrie, of Jackeys Marsh, and their two children Jade and Jenna, lived
01 Feb 12 | REMAINING residents of Rossarden and Storys Creek are making sure the history of their beloved towns is not forgotten. They are opening a museum in Rossarden which captures the full story of
01 Feb 12 | GETTING thrown around on the back of a bull or running in front of that same bull trying to protect its rider would not be everyone's chosen sport. But for participants in the rodeo scene, it sure
Old hands become green thumbs
01 Feb 12 | THE backyard at the Campbell Town Health Centre is looking mighty fine thanks to its chief gardeners. Old friends Bruce Richardson, 88, and Kevin Rawlinson, 78, took control of the previously
01 Feb 12 | THE youth of the Northern Midlands have received $1800 from a government who wants them to be heard. The Northern Midlands Council's "Youth Cafe of Music and Thought" initiative was one of 27
Old schoolhouse saved
01 Feb 12 | THE old Avoca schoolhouse stood as a symbol of hard work and community spirit at the official Northern Midlands Australia Day event. The building, which was built in 1908, was saved from demolitio
04 Jan 12 | CAMPBELL Town skaters have something to cheer about after the town's new skatepark was officially opened on December 4. The skatepark was constructed after youths from the region decided somet
04 Jan 12 | Name: Len Turner, of Perth. Position: Antiques dealer and picture framer and Leather Bottle Antiques owner. First Job: Helping Dad on a milk round in Bathurst, New South Wales - it use
04 Jan 12 | A NEW social network based at Cressy, Longford, Perth and Evandale will help teens and 20-somethings find their place in the community. The Young Adults Social Activity Group has been formed to he
Watercolourist owes a lot to teacher
04 Jan 12 | Frank Deane started painting five years ago. Mr Deane recently got into the Christmas spirit and painted an English landscape scene which he transformed into Christmas cards for family and friends
04 Jan 12 | THE history of the Ross Female Factory has been recorded in a book. The Female Convict Research Group is responsible for the book that documents the lives of the women who lived at the female
Taekwondo practitioners are belted black
04 Jan 12 | IF YOU happened to be wandering past the Police and Citizens Youth Club hall last week you might have heard the sounds of a martial art. Up to 50 people gathered in the hall to watch a taekwondo b
04 Jan 12 | THE Northern Midlands Council stands to make $539,000 a year from its water and sewerage facilities if a merger of the state's three management bodies gets the "OK" from councils. Currently the co
04 Jan 12 | CHEQUERED banners, a 1960s' dance event and cars, cars, cars, will be inspiring the community next March when the Longford Revival Festival returns to town. The second festival has been locked in
Serving humour to you
04 Jan 12 | TWO Longford workers have been recognised for good customer service. Rotary's Are You Being Served? competition results were announced last month. The senior winner was Merise Lockett of Ba
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