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New route riles local residents

The residents of Douglas, Reid and Scott Streets Rutherglen have been left stunned after receiving letters last week notifying them that their streets are to be included in the new alternate route for heavy vehicles. In response to community...

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Regional coordinator says ‘Can the Plan’

Since Allan Beale returned to the Riverina two years ago he has seen a lot of hardship and financial hurt that he knows should not be happening. The retired Army officer, who grew up on a farm between Oaklands and Daysdale, cannot understand why...

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Garden celebration and conversation at Karinya

Karinya residents were treated to an in-house film, ice-cream and flower arranging on Thursday 7th November as part of a Federation Council community grant. The event was collaboration between Phillip Nielson and Aaron Nicholls from Regional Design...

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Rotary gets ready for Australia Day weekend

The Corowa Rotary Club is gearing up for a big Australia Day celebration for the annual Federation Festival. The festival weekend has a long tradition of entertaining the residents of Corowa and the many visitors that frequent our region during the...

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War memorial sign unveiled

A new war memorial sign has been erected in Savernake as part of an initiative driven by the Corowa RSL Sub-Branch. This is the fourth of five memorials earmarked to be erected at local villages within the area. To date the Sub-Branch has provided...

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Corowa Market Report

Corowa’s Market on Monday yielded lower results to the previous market with a total 14,800 yarded an overall decrease of 6,552 sheep and lambs.

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Indigo Council elects new mayor and deputy mayor

Indigo Shire Council has elected Cr Jenny O’Connor as its new mayor for the next 12 months and Cr Sophie Price as deputy mayor. During a special meeting of Indigo Council last Tuesday, Cr O’Connor was elected as the new mayor, replacing Cr...

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Local firefighters committed to northern fires

Local firefighters have been working day and night across the state to battle the bushfire emergency that has been sweeping through New South Wales since September.

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Mayor Weston elected for another term

CAMPASPE Shire Council mayor Adrian Weston will stay at the helm for another term after being re-elected on Tuesday. At the statutory meeting councillors re-elected Cr Weston for a fourth term and elected Cr Vicki Neele as deputy mayor, both for...

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AFL Victoria scraps Community Championships

AFL Victoria has dumped generations of bush footy tradition by announcing it has scrapped interleague football. The decision has sparked widespread disappointment overwhelming disappointment at the lack of representative football to be played in...

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Local firefighters remembered

NSW Rural Fire Service unveiled four plaques during on Remembrance Day to memorialise the lives of local firefighters who went above and beyond in their duty. The plaques were each unveiled along with a Tree of Remembrance during an event at the...

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Extra drought package extends to small business

The extra drought package and the inclusion of a water deal for fodder producers will help farmers, businesses and communities in rural and regional NSW struggling with the effects of drought NSW Nationals Senator, Perin Davey said. The Federal...

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Corowa Market Report

Corowa’s Market on Monday yielded better results to the previous market with 21,352 yarded an overall increase of 7,452. 11,971 lambs were yarded for an iccrease of 2,015 while sheep were also up 5,737 with 9,381 yarded at this week’s market...

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‘Hold my Hand’ reminder at Federation Playgrounds

Federation Council has partnered with The Little Blue Dinosaur Foundation for its ‘Hold My Hand’ campaign, which aims to encourage parents and carers to hold their child’s hand when they are close to roadways. The colourful signage has been...

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Ladies show out to Oaks Day event

Oaks Day – a day that has become a tradition for the ladies of Corowa – has enjoyed another successful event this year at the Corowa Golf Club. Attendance numbers were increased on last year’s ladies day as a buoyant atmosphere filled the...

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Moving Remembrance Day Service

At 11 am on Monday Corowa, along with the nation, paused for Remembrance Day, marking the 101st anniversary of the Armistice that ended the First World War on 11 November 1918. Between 1914 and 1918 a newly federated Australia sent 414,000 of their...

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Council initiates policy directions

Motions relating to water management, waste and recycling, solar farm regulation, trade waste, council categories, Crown Land management, skills and training, and councillor remuneration were moved by Federation Council at this year’s NSW Local...

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Business dries up as drought worsens

As the drought continues to take its toll on regional communities, local retailers have lamented that business is diminishing. Corowa Curtains and Décor owner and standing president of the Chamber of Commerce, Stuart Whisson, says that the...

Rhys Williams

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Body recovered from Lake Benalla - UPDATED

Benalla Police and SES are currently searching the Lake Benalla shoreline with an area from the Art Gallery around to the showgrounds taped off. We are waiting on Victoria Police to contact us with more information which we will share with you as...

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EMERGENCY WARNING: Nanneella, Strathallan

UPDATE, 2.50PM: Thirty-two vehicles are now responding to the fire which is still burning out of control.

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Shepparton boxer Dwight Ritchie dies aged 27 in training accident

Shepparton’s sporting community is in shock after boxer Dwight Ritchie died tragically on Saturday in a freak training injury. The 27-year-old was sparring with WBA Oceania middleweight champion Michael Zerafa in Melbourne, when he was struck with...

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Shepparton boy wins car in McDonald’s Monopoly

You could not wipe the smile from 14-year-old Bodi Fitzsimmons’ face on Friday afternoon as he collected the four-wheeled prize he won through playing McDonald’s Monopoly.

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