25 Jul 02 | Last Thursday night was a clash of the titans with Alfie Seaton rolling the bottom half of the draw with some fine play to meet Mick W Brown who knocked Anna Gregory out of the semi-finals to play in the final.
25 Jul 02 | A delegate from the Royal Bowls Association of NSW, Bruce Baker, was in Lightning Ridge on Sunday as part of the local Presidents Day event to mark a special occasion - the first time the No.6 State Pennants team's winning flag had flown outside the local club.
25 Jul 02 | Two Barwon-Darling Rugby League representative sides, an Under 16s team and a seniors team went home victorious after winning the first Challenge Cup covering the ATSIC Murdi Paaki region, in Broken Hill against Outback Rugby League representative sides on Saturday.
25 Jul 02 | Bob Smith took out the Lightning Ridge Pistol Club's shoot this week.
25 Jul 02 | Seven veterans arrived for the Wednesday afternoon get together last week.
25 Jul 02 | A local miner walked away happy on Monday afternoon, after her name was drawn from more than 600 tickets for the release of Opal Prospecting Block 194 located at the Coocooran opal fields.
25 Jul 02 | Following a call from 13 Western Shire Group mayors for the State Government to put in place a drought assistance package early last week, premier Bob Carr along with agriculture minister Richard Amery and NSW Farmers' Association president Mal Peters had decided to visit Bourke on Thursday that week to assess the situation.
25 Jul 02 | A rescue re-accreditation course for firefighters was held on Monday night.
25 Jul 02 | Following a call from the Department of Mineral Resources to review the opal mining industry, farmers yesterday met with a department senior officer.
18 Jul 02 | Up and coming hot shot Alfie Seaton cut through the pack of 16 pool competitors on Thursday night to bag the prize, meeting Rampaging Roy Bentham in the closely fought final.
18 Jul 02 | The team consisting father and son, Ian and Nathan Woodcock, and Graham Morris were titled Club Triples Champions, after they defeated the runners-up, Len May, Peter Williams and Kerry O'Brien in the final playoffs.
18 Jul 02 | The Lightning Ridge Gun Club was one of 28 shooting clubs across the State to receive funding through the Department of Sport and Recreation's Shooting Facility Development Program.
18 Jul 02 | Richard Hunt from the Goulbourn Gun Club was an excited young winner of the 25 Target Continental Points Score shooting event, that took place late Saturday afternoon.
18 Jul 02 | The Rotary Club of Lightning Ridge held its changeover dinner on Tuesday night at the same time celebrating the club's fifth birthday.
18 Jul 02 | Local resident Orel Lea is devastated after thieves ransacked two camps she had spent weeks restoring.
18 Jul 02 | The Sydney-based Nova Youth Orchestra conducted stopped off in Lightning Ridge last week as part of its north and central western tour.
18 Jul 02 |
Western division mayors will put forward an assistance proposal to the State Government to help their drought affected farmers.
11 Jul 02 | Talitha Sweatman, Leonie Gawthorpe and Stephanie Stone are three of a class of 30 girls who are preparing for their gymnastics exam on Monday.
11 Jul 02 | Community members interested in starting up a basketball competition in Lightning Ridge met recently at the sports centre.
11 Jul 02 | Leonie and Tim Gawthorpe were two of nine junior students who passed their grading recently.
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