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SERVICE: Chris Laurence, Des Rowe, Carla Lebreton receive awards for service from Steph Cooke and Ross Tout. Photo: Declan Rurenga

Volunteers who are always on-call to help others

Declan Rurenga

FUNDING PROMISE: NSW opposition local government spokesman Peter Primrose visiting Cootamundra Library. Photo: Declan Rurenga

NSW Labor pledges more funding for public libraries

Declan Rurenga

Wattlebirds swoop in with creative challenge

RECOGNITION: Cootamundra SES controller Des Rowe with this life membership and 50 years' service awards on Saturday. Photo: Declan Rurenga

Humble-hearted Des honoured for dedicated service

Declan Rurenga

GOLDEN GIRL: Ebony Davey is Miss Wattle for 2018 and she is hoping to do the title justice this year. Photo: Declan Rurenga

Ebony Davey chosen as Miss Wattle 2018

Cootamundra Herald

Potential terror threat opens different Book Week chapter

Declan Rurenga

BIRTHDAY BASH: Cootamundra Heritage Centre volunteers Rosalind Wight and Yvonne Forsyth with part of a new display. Photo: Declan Rurenga

Heritage volunteers to celebrate 17th anniversary

Cootamundra Herald

SERVICE: Chris Laurence, Des Rowe, Carla Lebreton receive awards for service from Steph Cooke and Ross Tout. Photo: Declan Rurenga

Volunteers who are always on-call to help others

Declan Rurenga

FUNDING PROMISE: NSW opposition local government spokesman Peter Primrose visiting Cootamundra Library. Photo: Declan Rurenga

NSW Labor pledges more funding for public libraries

Declan Rurenga

INJURY TOLL: Cootamundra skipper Adam McPhail is missing almost half his starting side after a horror season of injuries at O'Connor Park. Photo: Declan Rurenga

Casualty list puts Strikers in the lurch

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Matt Eisenhuth's Tigers (left) suffered a 20-10 loss to St George Illawarra.

Cleary declares Tigers not dead yet

Steve Zemek

Ben Hunt shrugged off his latest clanger before the Dragons rose from a slump at the Wests Tigers.

Dragons playmaker Hunt laughs off critics

Steve Zemek

Athletes of North and South Korea enter the stadium at the Asian Games opening ceremony.

Koreas march together as Asian Games open

Associated Press

Matt Eisenhuth's Tigers (left) suffered a 20-10 loss to St George Illawarra.

Cleary declares Tigers not dead yet

BIG SHOW: Cootamundra Rodeo president Francis Ross with the new boundaries installed ahead of the first rodeo to be held since 2012. Photo: Declan Rurenga

Bucking bulls, broncos set for return to Cootamundra

Cootamundra Herald

Live coverage: our weekend sports blog

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FAMILY FUN: Ganmain show will brighten your winter on Saturday, August 18, with fun for all the family. Pictures: Destination Riverina Murray

It’s showtime and salami

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KEEP CALM: Singers Kerwyn Field, Shelly Johnston, Cathy Ashcroft, Geoff Twomey, singing teacher Geraldine Ryan, Oscar Smith, Leigh Butt. Photo: Contributed

Geraldine Ryan’s singing students to keep calm and sing

FAMILY FUN: Ganmain show will brighten your winter on Saturday, August 18, with fun for all the family. Pictures: Destination Riverina Murray

It’s showtime and salami

Community diary: What’s on Cootamundra

CHESS: At the library.

Diary: what’s on Cootamundra

Top results: Students at Macquarie Anglican Grammar achieve excellent results in external assessments.

Students set up to succeed

From a single employee 100 years ago, Dawson and Partners Cootamundra now employs 19 (above), as well as seven more at the Goulburn office.

Dawson & Partners celebrates a milestone: Serving over a century

Green is a safe colour for the kitchen space. It complements white colours or neutral tones, wooden or steel elements.

Stick-on kitchen colour

Top results: Students at Macquarie Anglican Grammar achieve excellent results in external assessments.

Students set up to succeed

YOUR NEWS, YOUR WAY: Go online and visit cootamundraherald.com.au to subscribe for full digital access.

Cootamundra Herald launches new website and digital subscriptions

Ross Tyson

Connected: With an average of 26 connected devices in each household which could expose those within the home to unexpected risk.

Protecting digital devices

Security: Make sure valuables such as jewellery, laptops, credit cards and identity documents such as passports are locked away safely

Tips to stay secure

Security: Make sure valuables such as jewellery, laptops, credit cards and identity documents such as passports are locked away safely

Renovating? Some tips to stay secure

The Desert Rose was designed and built in Wollongong and will be disassembled and shipped to Dubai to be reconstructed over a 10-day period in November as part of the Solar Decathlon Middle East 2018.

Focus on dementia and energy

COOTA SPIRIT: Cootamundra Restorers Car Club, volunteers and businesses are supporting Can Assist by collecting batteries to recycle.

Battery buzz helping charity

GOLDEN GIRL: Ebony Davey is Miss Wattle for 2018 and she is hoping to do the title justice this year. Photo: Declan Rurenga

Ebony Davey chosen as Miss Wattle 2018

Cootamundra Herald

OUR PAST: Cootamundra teachers meet during a satellite telecast, voting for resolution to strike on May 10, 1990. Picture: Fairfax Media

Modern tech meets our past

COOTA SPIRIT: Cootamundra Restorers Car Club, volunteers and businesses are supporting Can Assist by collecting batteries to recycle.

Battery buzz helping charity

DIARY: WHAT'S ON

Community diary: what’s on

Jan Owen, CEO of the Foundation for Young Australians, was the overall winner of the inaugural Women of Influence awards in 2012. Photo: Elke Meitzel

Women of Influence 2018: award spurred on original winner Jan Owen

Hannah Tattersall

INJURY TOLL: Cootamundra skipper Adam McPhail is missing almost half his starting side after a horror season of injuries at O'Connor Park. Photo: Declan Rurenga

Casualty list puts Strikers in the lurch

Flashback Friday: Photos around Cootamundra from July 2008

Flashback Friday: Photos around Cootamundra from July 2013

THERE, COMES A LION: Students Oliver Hall as 'young Simba' and Harry Boxsell as 'Mufasa' on Pride Rock during rehearsals. Photo: Bec Herring

The Lion King to be pride of school | Photos

Izaiah Pahulu brings the ball up for Cootamundra's under 11s. Photo: Declan Rurenga

Cootamundra at the Junee Schoolboys Carnival | Photos

Flashback Friday: Photos around Cootamundra from January 1988

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MILESTONES: Stacey Boxsell duels with a Leeton player (left) and Annette Parkinson in action for the Strikers' reserves at O'Connor Park on Sunday. Photo: Declan Rurenga

Leonard Cup legend plays her 300th and counting… | Photos

Declan Rurenga

Flashback Friday: 40 photos from the Herald in December 1988

Cootamundra Herald

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: The Lion King came to town

TALENTED: Ronald Bishop says the 'Keep Calm and Sing' performances show Cootamundra has plenty of talent.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Cabaret comes to Coota

UNDER ATTACK: Letter-writer Ron Kirkland, of Cootamundra, worries for the future of the national broadcaster.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: ABC’s future ‘under threat’

PENNIES: Pensioners shouldn't hold their breath waiting for a windfall from the September 20 pension increase.

Don’t bank on big pension increase

Eileen Wood

Modern marvel: The second lock of the Panama Canal.

Cruise the Panama Canal with The Senior

Samara Ross

REV-OLUTION: Former combat medic Rick Carey is riding around Australia to raise funds for PTSD

Rick embarks on wild ride to help break PTSD cycle

Rowan Cowley

Second NSW bushfire at emergency level

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The remains of 25-year-old Yasmin Sinodinos were found in a gully in December 1991.

Cops revisit cold case Adelaide murder

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Vic Labor's $1.2b solar bid to woo voters

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Turnbull ramps up drought relief to $1.8b

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CWA President Annette Turner and her husband Barry on their drought affected property.

Drought close to home for CWA president

By Tim Dornin
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Labor pitches alternative power price plan

Marnie Banger and Pat Griffiths
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Turnbull may drop big business tax cuts

Daniel McCulloch

Deputy Premier Jackie Trad says abortion reform in Queensland is overdue.

Trad says Qld abortion reform long overdue

Stuart Layt

On the beach at Townsville… strolling comfortably in shorts.

A warm reprieve from winter is waiting up north

John Rozentals

PRETTY AS A PICTURE: The beautiful glass pavilion is cantilevered over the lake at Brick Bay.

Be charmed by villages in New Zealand’s Matakana

Sue Preston

Enjoy the delicious juices of a traditional sausage at Kaohsiung's night market.

Insiders tips about the world’s top rated foodie experiences

According to recent insights from Beaumont Tiles’ What’s my style quiz, Scandinavian was the number one style choice for renovators aged 16 to 25.

Appeal lies in the classics

A shortage of avocados in New Zealand has prompted criminal gangs to target orchards.

NZ avocado shortage leads to crime wave

Recipe from australianbeef.com.au

Try this: Meatball, zucchini and chickpea soup

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