28 Feb 03 | THE Tamworth girls and boys' under 16 softball teams are both keen to do one better and win the North Country Division Carnival, which starts in Tamworth today.
28 Feb 03 | INVERELL Rugby Club will host a big weekend of junior development and selection trials over the weekend of March 15 and 16.
28 Feb 03 | PIRATES commence their pre-season rugby union campaign this afternoon at Ken Chillingworth Oval against the Newcastle Waratahs with the half/fly-half combination sure to come under close attention of new coach Scott Leis.
28 Feb 03 | FORMER Balmain Tiger and Australian props Paul Sironen and Steve Roach want rugby league to be strong in the country.
28 Feb 03 | TAMWORTH Blue captain Mark Sweeney and his Inverell counterpart Damien Smith both have a couple of "new" faces to unleash in the War Veterans' Cup final in Inverell tomorrow.
28 Feb 03 | WHEN members of the Tamworth Canoe Club decided to do their bit for Clean-Up Australia Day, they weren't prepared for the shock that awaited them.
28 Feb 03 | RANK and file Tamworth police have labelled a community safety brochure put out by Tamworth's National Party MP John Cull as dangerously close to being election material.
28 Feb 03 | ARMIDALE residents are still eligible for a $700 subsidy to replace woodheaters under the NSW Government's woodsmoke reduction program.
28 Feb 03 | POLICE charged a man and a woman with serious assault offences after a violent incident at a Cole Rd home, Tamworth, on Thursday night.
28 Feb 03 | GUNNEDAH will be the focus of some high-level electioneering today when not one but two Federal ministers hit town to talk issues.
28 Feb 03 | Several Tamworth business leaders have demonstrated support for the Aboriginal Employment Strategy, and the wheels are now in motion as Cathy Duncan and Dick Estens start the recruitment process – an office will be opened in town in the coming months.
28 Feb 03 | MOREE'S success story, the Aboriginal Employment Strategy, is coming to Tamworth.
And the people behind the strategy hope to "shake the town up a bit".
27 Feb 03 | A HUGE tenancy homemaker complex of 13,000sq m costing an estimated $8 million is planned for Tamworth's Longyard area by one of Australia's largest listed property trusts, Stockland.
27 Feb 03 | INVERELL'S batsmen may suffer from a giant dose of deja vu when they take strike against one of the Tamworth Blues in Sunday's War Veterans Cup Final at Varley Oval.
27 Feb 03 | DURI Public School Year 6 student Shaun Stevenson is looking forward to leading the North West PSSA cricket team to a great performance at the State Championships in Hornsby next week.
27 Feb 03 | THE Tamworth miniball season will bounce into action on Monday with a coaching and registration afternoon.
27 Feb 03 | WHILE they might not be up there with the likes of Thorpe, Hackett and company, there is no doubt that the Williams family team will try just as hard to secure victory at the Tamworth Lioness Club Charity Swimming Carnival next Friday.
27 Feb 03 | BLAKE Andren's name will be associated with some of the sport's best after a great bowling performance for North West at the State carnival in Richmond yesterday.
27 Feb 03 | IT'S the busiest time of the year at Manilla, and business is booming as pilots arrive in town for the Australian and New Zealand paragliding championships.
27 Feb 03 | PARRY Shire Council yesterday rejected Baiada Poultry's development application for the construction of the Appleby Taradale chicken farm