Local News
10 Mar 10 | Farmers came out to see a torrent of water come bursting down the dry bed of the Billabong Creek on Sunday.
Flowing past the Hume Highway bridge, water spread out over the creek banks onto the flood plain and filled the lagoon.
03 Mar 10 | Has racism reared its head with three simple words, ‘sink boat people’ attached to a large road sign welcoming tourists to the Riverina?
Using printed letters in red, the offender pasted the message on the NSW tourist information sign located on the Olympic Highway between Henty and Yerong Creek.
24 Feb 10 | Greater Hume Shire Council has determined it will move away from differential rating for residential and business landowners and introduce a common rate in the dollar by the 2012/2013 Financial Year.
24 Feb 10 | St Patrick’s Primary School community expect to make a tidy profit of $5,000 by selling electricity generated by its new solar panels back to the supplier.
Over a period of one year, the Holbrook Catholic school will be able to recoup the electricity used by the school.
17 Feb 10 | Despite cancelling horse events at the Henty Show, locals drew on their own resources for a day of entertainment and fun.
10 Feb 10 | Yerong Creek residents are pushing hard to keep their local police officer and police residence.
A petition of 180 signatures has protested against the potential loss of their local ‘copper’ and police station which appears imminent.
03 Feb 10 | The controversial My School web site was launched last week amid accusations by the NSW Teachers Federation that the statistics will be misused.
27 Jan 10 | Greater Hume Shire Mayor Denise Osborne impressed on residents, “the one constant in communities such as ours is the support from other members.”
20 Jan 10 | Two men are dead and their families traumatised following a head-on crash by two trucks on the Hume Highway south of Holbrook.
Police have identified the deceased in the north bound truck as Brett Fitzgerald, aged 37 years of Hoppers Crossing, Victoria.
16 Dec 09 | Commander Norman Holbrook’s Victoria Cross and medals were unveiled at the Australian War Memorial on Friday.
His medals were made available, on loan from the Greater Hume Shire Council on behalf of the community of Holbrook, NSW.
09 Dec 09 | Greater Hume Shire Council will make the vital decision to appoint a preferred developer to construct a service centre on the highway bypass at Holbrook by early 2010.
The service centre is viewed by Greater Hume Shire Council as a key strategy in bolstering economic development and employment in the town, offsetting the negative impact of Holbrook being bypassed in 2012.
02 Dec 09 | Woomargama farmer Chris Mirams has graduated in Canberra from the prestigious Australian Rural Leadership Program.
During his final week of study Mr Mirams participated in a symposium that put the spotlight on leaders who are developing and implementing innovative solutions which will benefit Australian rural communities.
25 Nov 09 | The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) and Southern Improvement Alliance (SIA) have angered Greater Hume Shire Council by reneging on an undertaking to upgrade the Baird Street and Ashleigh Park Crossings.
18 Nov 09 | Lockhart Central School students will join more than 42,000 school children across NSW as they chomp down on apples during the NSW Farmers Association AppleQuest this month.
11 Nov 09 | Holbrook Men’s Shed volunteers have a message for the person who stole their materials.
“Return the timber and stumps; drop them in the vicinity of the old railway building. If the stuff is returned, no questions will be asked,” they said.
04 Nov 09 | Lockhart was the big winner in the NSW Tidy Towns Sustainable Communities award.
The small eastern Riverina town was awarded the prestigious 2010 Overall State Tidy Towns Sustainable Communities award.
28 Oct 09 | David Gooden from Lockhart has just joined an elite group of about 1400 worldwide by receiving a Nuffield Farming Scholarship.
He is one of just 18 outstanding primary producers from across Australia who was named a winner of Australia’s most prestigious agricultural scholarship for 2010.
21 Oct 09 | Almost 200 people were present at the official opening of the Hologram at the Holbrook Submarine Museum and Visitor Information Centre on Sunday, October 18, 2009.
14 Oct 09 | Ancestors of the Alma Park Klemkes were Godly people who built churches wherever they settled.
They were Lutherans who left Prussia in the 1840s, migrating to South Australia in a wave of souls seeking religious freedom without interference from the state.
In early October 2009, Evan Klemke and his family celebrated 125 years of farming at Hillview, Alma Park.
23 Sep 09 | GEROGERY farmers Neil and Wendy Phillips have won the Henty Machine of the Year with an hydraulically operated outloader that empties grain storage bags safely and efficiently.
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