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13 Mar 10 | GUNNEDAH mayor Adam Marshall has no fears for the future of the mining industry in the region.
Councillor Marshall said he was surprised by what he saw as “alarmist” and “doomsday claims” that mining would cease because of last week’s Supreme Court decision to declare as invalid arbitrated exploration access agreements on two Caroona properties.
13 Mar 10 | IT’S only hair. That’s why Tamworth woman Simone Mitchell will shave her head to raise funds for the Leukaemia Foundation today.
13 Mar 10 | INTEREST in the junior judging events at Tamworth Show yesterday was keen, with students from as far as Scone, Guyra, Gunnedah, Barraba and Manilla and Tamworth schools Farrer, Calrossy, McCarthy and Peel High competing for honours.
13 Mar 10 | A NAMOI catchment water study should be put to tender within the week with the successful applicant to be announced about the end of April.
13 Mar 10 | SOMERTON farmers are losing up to 50 per cent of their income because heavy vehicles can’t use the village’s bridge to cart hay, it has been claimed.
Farmer John Brigden, from Old Menedebri in Somerton, said transport companies were no longer including Somerton in their runs because it cost too much to access the town the long way, via Attunga.
13 Mar 10 | A MAN has died and a woman is in Tamworth hospital with serious injuries after a two-car accident on the New England Highway at Kootingal yesterday.
13 Mar 10 | TAMWORTH Regional Councillors are to meet next week to discuss battle plans in the wake of yesterday’s State Government refusal to fully fund the Somerton Bridge.
12 Mar 10 | MEMBERS of a group vehemently opposed to the building of a $227 million powerline between Tenterfield and Lismore have put their case to Energy Minister John Robertson.
12 Mar 10 | “ABSOLUTE nonsense” is how Member for New England Tony Windsor described the NSW Minerals Council’s dire end of all mining predicitions yesterday.
“(The comments are) a thinly veiled attempt to pressure the NSW Government into changing the law,” Mr Windsor said.
12 Mar 10 | MOONBI will be motoring at the weekend as classic cars, tractors, trucks and even stationary machinery roar to life under the expert coaxing of enthusiasts.
It is the annual Moonbi/Kootingal Motor Show and Historical Machinery Exhibition, and this year, more exhibits than ever before are expected to fill the Moonbi Showground.
12 Mar 10 | REMEMBER why.
The message from the Brad Hillier Foundation for drivers to slow down made its way to state parliament this week.
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12 Mar 10 | THE Tamworth Show Pavilion is full of colour this year, after a year’s hiatus.
12 Mar 10 | THE State Government has refused to confirm it will announce construction funds for the Tamworth Hospital in the June budget.
11 Mar 10 | TAMWORTH mayor James Treloar has said if Housing NSW developments in the city go ahead unchanged it would be a blatant abuse of State Government power.
11 Mar 10 | FRIDAY’s win for Caroona farmers in the NSW Supreme Court spells the end for mining exploration in the State, NSW Minerals Council CEO Dr Nikki Williams has said.
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11 Mar 10 | ONE-third of all planning applications to Tamworth Regional Council are processed within nine days.
More involved developments that require complex planning assessments or provoke public objections take an average of 39 days.
11 Mar 10 | Tamworth Regional Council has already begun investigating funding programs to help it build user-friendly facilities for a new taxi rank and a taxi zone in the CBD.
11 Mar 10 | ROSS Laurie, of Walcha and David McBride, of Mendooran have a joint exhibition opening at Tamworth Regional Gallery on Saturday.
11 Mar 10 | MAURICE “Digger” Wilcox looks splendid in his Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows regalia.
10 Mar 10 | THIS year’s Tamworth Regional Super Show is being billed as the “Tribute to Showground Road” because Tamworth Pastoral and Agricultural Association president John Rodd is sure it’s going to be the last one held at the site.
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