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EMOTIONS were running high before the meeting started, but didn't seem to sway the final vote. Read about the library decision here.
LOCAL mother credits BackTrack for helping to improve her relationship with her child. Find out why here.
IF YOU enjoy long walks through the bush, get in touch with the Armidale Bushwalking Club. Get on track here.
Make sure you vote in our online poll...
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Check out the latest job listings and items for sale with The Armidale Express Classifieds...
If you're looking for a working dog, then you might want to snag yourself a kelpie. Pick one up here.
Offload all your unwanted farm machinery to this guy. Because that tractor is really just taking up space in your linen cupboard, isn't it? Get rid of it here.
If you're not one to follow through with plans, but still don't want to sound lame to your friends when you tell them you're all alone at home, then buy yourself a bunch of these pullet hens. Because then you can say "Sorry, I'm too busy chillin' with all these chicks". Grab your social excuse here.
Did you know?
During the 1970s and 1980s, the Imperial Hotel was one of the biggest music venues in town. Among the artists who played there will Tommy and Phil Emmanuel, John Farnham and The Saints.
The Arboretum was officially opened in October 1988. The land was originally gazetted in 1882 but it took 100 years to decide what to do with it.
Frank Roberts was the first Indigenous Australian Olympian, who competed in the welterweight boxing division at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. He lived in Armidale where he taught boxing to local youths until his death in February 2011.
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DOG owners in the Uralla Shire Council area are being asked to take note of changes to pet registration fees, which take effect today.
Uralla Shire Council has updated registration fees, meaning that, from today, residents in the Council area will pay $192 in fees for a non-desexed dog or cat.
Desexed pets attract a registration fee of $52, but do require proof of their desexed status to qualify for the discount.
Pensioners with a desexed animal will pay just $21 for registration,
while credited working dogs attack no fee.
Pets owned by recognised dog or cat breeders cost $52 in registration fees, however documentation has to be supplied to Council.
All dogs and cats must be microchipped once they reach 12 weeks of age.
Under the Companion Animals Act, pets must also be registered by six months of age before being sold or given away.
The registration fees are set by the state government every financial year.
Well we've finally reached the half-way mark in the week, but it's not all (literal) sunshine and rainbows, for there is a 50 per cent chance of rain today. But it may well be all figurative sunshine and rainbows if you're a strong character and don't net nuthin' get in the way of your happiness. Because you have confidence in sunshine, rain and, more importantly, yourself.
Go you.
Check out the rest of the week's weather here to try and guess which show tune we'll link to the forecast for the next few days.
REGIONAL
HORSHAM: An investigation is underway to determine the cause of a fire that has left a Horsham business with a $400,000 damage bill. MORE.
WAGGA: Culcairn farmer Scott Mitchell has been embroiled in controversy for the past week but it has not deterred him from looking for love.
Mr Mitchell, 36, seemed like a done deal as one of the next farmers on reality show Farmer Wants a Wife but a phone call last week has thrown that in turmoil.
Mr Mitchell wants to close this chapter of his life and move onto the next.
Mr Mitchell was told by a representative of Freemantle Media that he was one of the final six farmers they pitched to Channel Nine but that he was replaced by Married At First Sight’s Lachlan at the last minute. MORE.
BALLARAT: A Ballarat teenager who died after he was hit by a car in Black Hill has been remembered as an “amazing” and “unbelievable kid”.
Patrick Bell, 17, was tragically killed while crossing Chisholm Street on Tuesday.
The Ballarat East Secondary College student recently celebrated his 17th birthday with his twin-sister. MORE.
NATIONAL WEATHER RADAR
NATIONAL NEWS
Joe Hockey has become the first Australian politician to successfully sue for defamation over a tweet.
The decision highlights some of the legal pitfalls of social media, which rewards rapid-fire, snappy missives stripped of context.
But there is very little else that is novel about the Federal Treasurer's $80,000 payout for two tweets from The Age's Twitter account in May last year – or indeed his $120,000 payout for the same words on a newspaper advertising placard.
Aboriginal children are being removed from their families and placed with drug-dealing carers who are demanding that their parents pay to see them, the royal commission into child sex abuse has heard.
Australia's largest new coal project, one hailed by Prime Minister Tony Abbott as a poverty-busting "miracle", is unbankable in the assessment of Queensland's Treasury, which also has question marks over the development's transparency.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
SYRIA: A second Australian man has reportedly died fighting with Kurdish forces in Syria, less than two months after he joined the battle against the Islamic State group.
Described as a "beloved brother who came from far away to do what had to be done," 23-year-old Reece Harding reportedly died on June 27 when he stepped on a land mine during night operations with the YPG (People's Protection Units) in north-eastern Syria.
CHINA: China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, has submitted a new carbon intensity reduction target to the United Nations while reaffirming its goal to curb carbon emissions by 2030, or "even earlier".
Premier Li Keqiang made the announcement while during a visit to Paris, where the global climate conference will take place at the end of the year.
TUNISIA: At a makeshift memorial on the site of last Friday's deadly attack, a steady stream of tourists and locals gathered to lay flowers and notes to remember the victims of Tunisia's worst ever terror attack.
With their backs to the deep blue of the Mediterranean Sea, they faced a swathe of sun lounges that now sit mostly empty on the beach in front of the Hotel Imperial Marhaba where so many lost their lives.
FACES OF AUSTRALIA - Rideika Wright
An Albion Park teenager is proud to have helped launch a new national clothing label and can't wait to see people wearing her design.
Rideika Wright, 16, took part in the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience and was invited along with 21 others to participate in a paid internship, with her artwork featured on AIME Apparel T-shirts.
The square graphic features a lizard to represent the year 10 student, as well as showing four "communities" in each corner to depict the different places she has lived - Walgett, Newcastle, Batemans Bay and Wollongong. MORE.