After receiving final approval from NSW Health, the fluoridation process of the Ashford water supply will commence in 2025. Council had resolved back in 2007 to proceed with fluoridation of the Ashford water supply and in order to fluoridate the water supply...
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Charity Golf Day Already Getting Good Response
16 team spots remain open for next year's Trend Tiles Inverell Breast Cancer Support Group Charity Golf Day. Organiser Mindy Davis says it should be a great day out with amazing prizes to be won, including a fully paid trip to Augusta worth $15k to watch the US...
New England-Northern Inland Volunteers on Their Way to 2024 NSW Volunteer of the Year Awards
Communities from across the New England-Northern Inland region are being urged to get behind their local volunteer finalists for the 2024 NSW Volunteer of the Year Awards. The New England-Northern Inland Volunteer of the Year finalists will join more than 200 of their...
Barbed Wire a Threat to Wildlife
Wildlife friendly fences allow animals to jump over or safely crawl under them, reducing the risk of animals getting caught in a wire twist. It is strongly recommended that fences do not have any barbed wire. However, if barbed wire must be used, it is best not to...
New Mandatory Food and Grocery Code for supermarkets to Include Multi-Million Dollar Penalties
The Albanese Government is ensuring that supermarkets will face multi-million-dollar penalties for harmful breaches of the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct. The Albanese Government will today introduce the Treasury Laws Amendment (Fairer for Families and Farmers and...
Inverell Shire Council Keen to have Rural and Regional Crime Inquiry Committee Visit Inverell
Inverell Shire council has invited members of the Rural and Regional Crime Inquiry Committee to visit Inverell as part of their investigations. The Inquiry is being undertaken by the Legislative Assembly’s Committee on Law and Safety and focuses on the drivers of...
A Range of Activities to be Available at Redeveloped Aquatic Centre
Managers of the Inverell Aquatic Centre are preparing to offer the Inverell community a vast range of activities at the redeveloped facility when it opens early next year. Aleigh Spence from Belgravia Leisure says they’ll be offering Learn to Swim classes, Jimbaroo...
Armitage Leaves Behind Legacy
The regions’ stock and station industry is mourning the loss of respected agent David Armitage who died recently at the age of 90. In an item in the Northern Daily Leader, Australian Livestock and Property Agents Association president Peter Baldwin described Mr...
Country Mayors Endorse Opposition to Planning Piracy
The Country Mayors Association of NSW (CMA) has endorsed the universal condemnation at the Local Government NSW conference in Tamworth recently of the State Government’s planning announcement last Friday. “The NSW Government has looted the most significant planning...