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Macquarie Yabbies second carnival a huge success

PHOTOSMacquarie Yabbies second carnival a huge success

THAT TIME AGAIN: Western Rams under 16s players celebrate a Johns Cup try last season. Photo: NICK McGRATH

Country colours the goal again as Panthers trials launch Rams' campaigns

Nick Guthrie

The second Macquarie Yabbies carnival was held Sunday with 171 swimmers from 23 participating clubs across NSW and even QLD entering.

Narromine sports results - January 15

Macquarie Yabbies second carnival a huge success

PHOTOSMacquarie Yabbies second carnival a huge success

DONATION: The Narromine Jets Rugby League Club has been given a bus by Tomingley Gold Operations and its contractors. Photo: Contributed.

Pure gold: Gold mine and contractors buy bus for Narromine Jets

Presentation Day has been scheduled for Sunday, December 22 and hopefully, we will get most of the Champions there and a goodly bunch of members as well so we can properly acknowledge our 2019 Championship Winners.

Around the grounds...

Contributed

Tourism Australia is attempting to attract visitors to parts of the country that have not been impacted by bushfires. Pictures: Shutterstock

Help tourism rise from the ashes

Michael Turtle

The Barossa Valley - one of my favourite places.

The lovely and perplexing Barossa

John Rozentals

One of the stop-offs on the Great Vic Bike Ride 2019. Picture: Karleen Minney.

An exhilarating ocean-side ride

Karleen Minney

READY TO RHYME: Library coordinator Melissa Tong with one of Andy Jones' most popular books. Photo: TAYLOR DODGE.

Popular author and funny man set to bring show to shire

Taylor Dodge

Treasures of Trove and Ancestry workshop

Treasures of Trove and Ancestry workshop

Cheryl Smith

#NarrominedoesDolly : Narromine Dolly Parton festival preparations well underway for April 2020

Here's what's planned so far for the 2020 Dolly Parton Festival

Zaarkacha Marlan

READY TO RHYME: Library coordinator Melissa Tong with one of Andy Jones' most popular books. Photo: TAYLOR DODGE.

Popular author and funny man set to bring show to shire

Dean, Steph and Carolyn at the Tomingley event. Photo: CONTRIBUTED

Rotary delivering drought support for the shire

Zaarkacha Marlan

A card making workshop

Cheryl Smith

Have a break: This summer explore more of our vast continent without worrying about network coverage. With Pennytel you can get 98.8 per cent coverage across Australia's populated areas.

Keeping covered this summer

Could this be the perfect Christmas present?

Could this be the perfect Christmas present?

Emma Brown

Leadership qualities: Kate Venables was one of the first managers in Australia to receive Chartered Manager accreditation.

The making of a leader

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Have a break: This summer explore more of our vast continent without worrying about network coverage. With Pennytel you can get 98.8 per cent coverage across Australia's populated areas.

Keeping covered this summer

The time leading up to Christmas is rife with offers too good to resist. So make the most of them early, like this Nokia phone offer from Pennytel, which can help you prepare for the good times ahead and even finish your shopping.

'Tis the way to stay in touch this Christmas

HAND UP: Collaborative AI, in which people and AI team up, will change the way we work.

Collaborate: AI can be your friend

Ben Jackson

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Open homes in and around Dubbo from Thursday, January 9 to Sunday, January 12 | Photos, Videos, Map

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TAKING CARE: Animals, just like people, can be seriously affected by smoke haze.

Helping animals cope with those not-so-happy, hazy days

RSPCA
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#TBT: June 2007

Throwback Thursday: Photos from the Narromine News from June 2007

Zaarkacha Marlan

Lions give support to fires

Lions give support to fires

TAKING CARE: Animals, just like people, can be seriously affected by smoke haze.

Helping animals cope with those not-so-happy, hazy days

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Veronica & Keith Windred, Jan Hilder, Lyn Ferrari, Pam Clark, Alan KInsey and Fay Wallace.

Trangie celebrate festive season at community party

Ros Hayden, Neil Wilson, Ilma George, Colin Coffee, Jan Hilder, Jenny Wilson & Margaret Wood.

Trangie CWA end the year with Christmas morning tea

#TBT: June 2007

Throwback Thursday: Photos from the Narromine News from June 2007

ON PATROL: Fire and Rescue NSW country region senior instructor Scott Habgood and Dubbo Station Officer Simon Bracht with the Black Panther. Photo: BELINDA SOOLE

Black Panther sighting west of the Blue Mountains

Dave mangenner Gough

New Oz Day TV advert 'not reality'

ON PATROL: Fire and Rescue NSW country region senior instructor Scott Habgood and Dubbo Station Officer Simon Bracht with the Black Panther. Photo: BELINDA SOOLE

Black Panther sighting west of the Blue Mountains

Veronica & Keith Windred, Jan Hilder, Lyn Ferrari, Pam Clark, Alan KInsey and Fay Wallace.

Trangie celebrate festive season at community party

The faces and the scenes of Australia's fire crisis. Photos: ACM staff, supplied.

REAL AUSTRALIAFrom ashen grief towards recovery, somehow

Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, intend to 'work to become financially independent'.

Harry, Meghan step back as senior royals

This image was titled Dancing with Bulls. Ben's office is wild and unpredictable.

The photographer who dances with bulls

Lucy Kinbacher

Ahhh: Winding down from the real world for a moment at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.

REAL AUSTRALIAForget the fires and the drought, for a few days anyway

Madeline Link

A world hungry for performance art... voilà!

OPINIONA world hungry for performance art... voilà!

John Malouff

The late Angus McDonald snapped while looking over Egelabra Merino sale rams during his most active years.

Big name in Trangie's agency game, Angus McDonald dies at 82

Mark Griggs

REUNITED: Valda Dawson (left) with cousin, and neighbour, Dorothy Wallis.

Cousins reunited after six decades

Geraldine Cardozo

JUST LOVING IT: See Aussie singing legend John Paul Young. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

JPY shares the love

Cheryl Field

MULTI-LEVEL: The Smart Road vertical village will comprise 77 independent living apartments and community amenities, including a Montessori Early Learning Centre.

Vertical living: A smart idea for generations

Geraldine Cardozo

Smoke is expected to return to central Melbourne on Saturday as easterly winds cross firegrounds.

Vic emergency fire warnings downgraded

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Ecologists fear over 80 per cent of the heritage-listed Blue Mountains may've been lost to bushfires

Fears 'huge' part of Blue Mountains burnt

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Teens who overcome the odds to complete year 12 at Gunbalanya in the NT are treated like heroes.

Hero's treatment for remote NT graduates

Central NSW and the state's northeast are expected to cop a soaking on Saturday.

Rain to hit parts of drought-stricken NSW

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has described the flag as "disgusting".

Vic community rallies against Nazi flag

Marnie Banger

ACTU's Michele O'Neil wants a lift to the disaster recovery allowance for bushfire-affected people.

Union wants urgent recovery allowance lift

Finbar O'Mallon

Bridget McKenzie may face a senate inquiry over the $100 million community sports grant scandal.

Minister may face probe over sports grants

Finbar O'Mallon

There has been rainfall in dried out parts of Queensland but it isn't enough to break the drought.

More rainfall needed to break drought

Sonia Kohlbacher

Guest auctioneer Paul Dooley, Tamworth congratulates Bea Litchfield on another successful ram auction conducted by the Litchfield family, Hazeldean, Cooma

Hazeldean best of the best hits $6500

Stephen Burns
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Breeder shortage fears for bushfire rebuilders

Breeder shortage fears for bushfire rebuilders

Shan Goodwin
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BALE-OUT: Farmer Phil Cook, centre, chats with Jane Smith and Greg Williams at last year's "mercy" delivery of hay. On Monday, an even bigger load will arrive at Mr Cook's property in the drought-stricken district.

Farmers to be 'baled out'

Greg Mayfield

HUMBLE: The A-HA! Studio house, at a modest 64.5m2, feels bigger inside because of of the clean, unfussy design, say owner-builders Jesse Zilm and Isabella James.

A-HA! What a great idea for a house

KITCHEN NIRVANA: Research shows that mental clarity, productivity and endorphins increase when you're living and working in an organised space.

Time to sort out your stuff

Must watch: Zellige style tiles celebrate their organic imperfections as opposed to covering them.

Have a sneak peek at 2020's tile trends