7:13 AM AEDT | Belated birthday wishes are extended to gorgeous Scarlett Chambers who celebrated her second birthday on March 10. I am sure her parents Jason and Melinda along with her big sister Amelia made her day very special.

RURAL Fire Service (RFS) officers believe a fire bug who has been active for more than eight months in the region is known to someone within the community. A total of 25 fires have been attributed as being of suspicious origin during this period with over 3,500 acres of pasture, crop and livestock falling victim to the arsonist.

RETIREMENT VILLAGE It was lovely chatting with Betty Watts last week. Betty is a resident at the Retirement Village, and she had not long returned from an organised bus trip to Junee to visit the Licorice and Chocolate Factory.

7:14 AM AEDT | IT took her a couple of minutes to realise her feat, however Belinda Scott has become the first player of the new decade to record a hole-in-one at the Cootamundra Golf Course.

GOLFERS competing in this weekend’s Caltex Fourball tournament at the Cootamundra course have extra motivation to be ‘on target’ with local company South West Fuel Centre putting up a $2000 petrol prize for a hole-in-one on the par-3 ninth.