30 Jan 09 | PAT Kerin, who loves umpiring, will officiate in his 200th match on Sunday when he steps out onto Fisher Park with Chris Cassin in Cootamundra’s Fife Shield match against Wagga East.
Pat gained his New South Wales Cricket Umpires and Scorers Association Accreditation in 2003.
Since retiring from the Railway in 2004, Pat has been able to stand in many mid week fixtures; this has certainly boosted his number of matches.
30 Jan 09 | 99 YEARS YOUNG
Of the numerous visitors in town last weekend, many were here to help celebrate the birthday of well-known Cootamundra citizen Mrs Ethel Meale.
Mrs Meale originally came from Sydney to Cootamundra at the age of 20, to a job with the Shell Company, and from then on Cootamundra was “home” as she met and married the late William Thomas Meale.
30 Jan 09 | A Cootamundra woman had the shock of her life on Wednesday afternoon, when she saw a tail, which in her mind could not have been anything other than a snake dissapear into the dash of her car. The distraught woman drove her vehicle to the Cootamundra Fire Station where crew members along with local snake handler Ian Hoy and local auto electrician Jarred Craw dismantled the vehicle in an attempt to locate the snake and remove it from the vehicle.
28 Jan 09 | IT wasn’t a lack of commitment that caused the absence from Australia Day festivities of Cootamundra’s Sportsperson of the Year; quite the opposite.
Dylan Berkrey, the 16-year-old Cootamundra Strikers midfielder is on official business in Singapore, touring with the NSW U-16 State Football team.
28 Jan 09 | AN EXCITING RETURN
Francine Dorczak had an emotional homecoming as she was greeted at Sydney airport by her family after spending 12 months as a Boarding Assistant at Sidcot International School, North Somerset.
28 Jan 09 | Leigh and Isabel take top honours
IN recognition of their dedicated service to the Cootamundra community husband and wife Leigh and Isabel Scott have been awarded the joint honour of Cootamundra Citizens of the Year.
This was only the second year that a couple has received the honour, with John and Jean Deitch receiving the honour in 2000.
23 Jan 09 | AARON Bird was posed the question most sporting stars get hit with at least once in their career.
What would he do if, in his case, he wasn’t a professional cricketer?
“To tell you the truth I honestly have no idea,” Bird said at Monday’s Country Challenge held at Fisher Park.
“I grew up in Taree on the North Coast and was addicted to
cricket from an early age.
23 Jan 09 | NEWS FROM NEW YORK
It was an excited Livingstone family on New Years Day with a text message from Patrick Livingstone to let them know that he and partner Ann had announced their engagement in New York on New Years Eve.
23 Jan 09 | THE Cootamundra Primary Heath Care Centre was officially opened by Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon yesterday.
In opening the centre Ms Roxon congratulated those involved in the concept and the construction of the centre saying it is a great example of what can be done with collaboration between the community, the government and private investors.
22 Jan 09 | NSW Blues stars Peter Neville and Scott Coyte showed local cricket fans a glimpse of their undoubted talent with a display of powerful hitting in Monday’s Country Cricket Challenge at Fisher Park.
22 Jan 09 | What a picture perfect evening it was when Cootamundra girl Anna Quarmby wed Adam Brayshaw -
They chose New Years Eve and the ceremony took place at 6pm in the Sacred Heart Church. Anna had her little nieces Maggie and Pippa Milthorpe as attendants and witnesses to their marriage were Adam’s grandmother and Anna’s sister Michelle Milthorpe.
22 Jan 09 | THE last of the water in the once full and popular Railway Dam has dwindled away to barely a puddle.
Thriving fish species in the dam have been the talk of many local fishing enthusiasts in past years, however, due to the recent dry and hot weather conditions a substantial amount of water has evaporated from the dam causing the fish to die.
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