Local News
03 Sep 10 | CELEBRATIONS, CELEBRATIONS
What a SURPRISE Mrs Marie Willis received when she arrived at the Muttama Hall close on midday last Saturday - her children Michael, Mark, Phillip, David, Debbie and Stephen hosted a party to mark their mum’s 80th birthday!
03 Sep 10 | THEY’RE going to the Henty Field Days, lot of good people there.
They’ll see you at the Henty Field Days, nothing like it anywhere.
01 Sep 10 | READY TO PERFORM
It was certainly a busy day on Saturday last at the Cootamundra Arts Centre with the Chris Edwards School of Dance rehearsals
taking place there as well as in the studio.
01 Sep 10 | AFTER more than 15 years at the helm of the Cootamundra and Young TAFE Institute Campuses Kerry Penton is about to make the move of a lifetime.
27 Aug 10 | CANADIAN HOLIDAY
Welcome home to Barry and Judy Cant who have returned from a breathtaking trip to Canada and Alaska.
In all they were away for five weeks and highlights of their trip were the two weeks spent with friends in Montreal, time in Vancouver and Whistler.
27 Aug 10 | WITH farmers across the region heading for a bumper crop this season, one of the biggest concerns at present is locusts.
25 Aug 10 | WEST AUSTRALIAN HOLIDAY
Local couple Adam and Michelle Fuller and their sons Aaron and Joshua have returned home after having had an outstanding holiday in Western Australia.
25 Aug 10 | A 61 kilometre stretch of natural gas pipeline is
presently being replaced between Wagga and Young.
Many local residents who have travelled between Cootamundra and Wagga would have noticed workers on site and the vast area which has already been completed.
25 Aug 10 | OVER the past 135 years, thousands of students and hundreds of teachers have been part of the Cootamundra Public School community.
20 Aug 10 | BIGGEST WINNER
Come Alive’s Mark Elia and Sam Doidge were very happy at the interest shown in the Riverina’s Biggest Winner competition which will include Cootamundra as well as many neighbouring towns.
20 Aug 10 | AFTER only 15 months in the top job, Cootamundra Local Area Commander Maria Rustja is leaving the region to take on a position heading the Joint Investigative Response Squad in Sydney which focuses on child sexual abuse.
18 Aug 10 | 18TH BIRTHDAY
Tara Haines celebrated her 18th birthday last Tuesday. Flowers were delivered to the SouthWest Slopes Credit Union where Tara works and she enjoyed the good wishes of her workmates and clients.
18 Aug 10 | THERE are no arguments the local Lions Club is one of the biggest hearted service groups in Cootamundra.
For almost four decades Lions has supported the community in a number of ways including fundraising and projects for the benefit of the town and providing financial assistance to other charities and organisations.
13 Aug 10 | MOST Cootamundra shire residents would be horrified to face what Elouera Recycling staff deal with on a daily basis.
13 Aug 10 | LONG TIME FRIENDS
Mrs Lorna Arentz, who celebrated her birthday recently, is pictured with long time friend Mrs Nell Bodycott. They were enjoying the recent Christmas in July party which took place at the Cootamundra Nursing Home.
13 Aug 10 | CREEKS are running, dams are full and several road crossings were under water following heavy rainfall across the Cootamundra district this week.
11 Aug 10 | MORE than 400 people attended the Soroptimist International Cootamundra Wattle Time Art Exhibition over the weekend.
11 Aug 10 | IT’S the ultimate reward for any sportsperson - the chance to represent your country.
Cootamundra’s Jenna Collingridge will do just that when she steps out for the Australian Schoolgirls soccer side next year for a series of matches in China and Japan.
06 Aug 10 | LOCAL larrikin Clarrie Power is at it again with his latest project.
Clarrie has compiled a joke book containing the best of his weekly Fair Dink columns from the Cootamundra Herald.
06 Aug 10 | BOLLYWOOD
On Saturday, July 24 a Bollywood show entitled “Jalwa” (meaning ‘charisma’ in Hindi) was held at the Royal Theatre in Canberra by the ‘Bollywood Dimensions’ dance school.