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By Bridging the Gap On Thursday we played 6 tables using 24 boards, so once again were able to head to the small room where it was warm. Winners playing North/South were Ruth Dennis and Jill Perkins and East/West were Helen Edwards and Margie Porter who scored an amazing 68.91%, so well done to them […]
By Leanne Foster On the 19 th of July, the ladies played a two person Ambrose. The winning team was Helen Cother and Kylie Walton with a 72 ¾ net. Runners up were Leanne Dolling and Florence Schulz. Leanne Dolling had the longest drive on the 2 nd and nearest the pins were Marjorie Todd […]
By Amelie Nancarrow Under 13’s Dartmoor 3 defeated Greenbottles 0 Dartmoor goals: Mason White (3) Dartmoor best: Mason White, Eddie Dolphin Greenbottles best: Toby boord, Jada Copping, Henry fry With a top of the table clash and bragging rights leading into the finals it was shaping up to be a great contest between Dartmoor and […]
By Tim Delaney, MLA Cattle: LWB 10 – LWY 217 – LWC 186 – OAY 1 Naracoorte cattle numbers increased this week to 414 a lift of 164 head. It was an improved quality yarding from very good to average with the offering containing some well presented prime yearling and grown cattle in the trade […]
By Chris Oldfield The community spirit of Tatiara District Council will be on show once again when it meets at Padthaway for its August 8 meeting. Traditionally, Tatiara meets at least once a year at Padthaway and once at Keith. The meetings in the outlying towns are always held at 2pm – a time when […]
By Chris Oldfield AFTER saving hundreds of lives in our district, and throughout South Australia, leading cardiologist Dr Phil Tideman OA, has died as a result of bowel cancer, aged 64. It was at Naracoorte and Robe that in 1999 Dr Tideman first teamed up with the Kincraig and Robe Medical Clinics, setting a blueprint […]
By Chris Oldfield TELSTRA’s new deal with Starlink will help provide a fixed voice service to rural and remote customers, but it won’t improve the poor mobile phone coverage in areas of the South East. Telstra announced its new deal with Starlink via a press release dated July 3. Responding to questions from The News, […]
By Rachel Savage Balharry Memorial Kindergarten and Rural Care are raising money to upgrade our outdoor play space. Our centre, based in Lucindale, is a combined Rural Care and Kindergarten caring for children from birth to 12 years. It can be difficult to design spaces that cater for the range of ages that use our […]
By Michael Waite, Founder/Volunteer michael@naracoortenews.com (08) 8121 4141 YOUR support has propelled The News’ Gives Back initiative past $100,000 in contributions to local community groups. From an audacious idea my sister, Mary Waite, had to give away 25 cents of every copy sold before we had even sold our first advertisement – let alone printed […]
By Mary-Ann Koerner The local volunteers of the Naracoorte “Meals on Wheels” branch have again supported Longridge. Meals on Wheels volunteers donate their mileage reimbursement to their local social account, which is then paid forwarded, to support other local organisations charities. This time they have purchased two extra-large, 13-inch iPad’s for our residents to use, […]
By Nasik Swami A Naracoorte-Lucindale counsellor has asked the council and his fellow elected members what they intend to do about the poor management of road maintenance and the underutilization of the road-making machinery in the district. In a question with notice submitted on July 13 to be presented in the council’s meeting this month, […]
By Nasik Swami My priorities have not changed. That’s the message from member for MacKillop and quitting Liberal Party MP Nick McBride. Mr McBride made the comment while responding to claims made by South Australia Liberal Party leader David Speirs that the MP’s resignation was “disappointing” and a “changing of priorities”. “I would like to […]
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