30 Jul 03 | Six of those gentlemen on the course out for their Wednesday afternoon exercise last week.
30 Jul 03 | Congratulations to Mel Fisher, Lisa Brown and Beverley Everett for being selected by the district selection committee to play in the McKinnon Trophy at Tamworth on August 15 and 16.
30 Jul 03 | More than $300 worth of prizes are up for grabs in the next Nobby's Fishing Club competition.
30 Jul 03 | Eight competitive teams and one non-competitive team represented the Lightning Ridge Central School at the State Aeroskool Challenge on July 7.
30 Jul 03 | While at the Visitor Information Centre opening last Thursday, deputy prime minister and federal Gwydir MP John Anderson presented Centenary of Federation Medals to recipients from Lightning Ridge, Collarenebri and Rowena.
30 Jul 03 | Discovery a boost for local industry
News of a large and rare opal find on the fields of Lightning Ridge recently would have the potential to give the industry a major boost.
30 Jul 03 | More than 35 teachers from Lightning Ridge and Goodooga took part in a stop-work meeting on Tuesday morning to discuss the proposed salaries offer and future directions of industrial action, following the Government's wage increase for next year.
30 Jul 03 | Local miner Karen Bruce was crowned 2003 Opal Queen in front of a packed house at the bowling club on Saturday night.
23 Jul 03 | The Far West Academy of Sport rugby league squad completed its final squad activity for the 2002/03 program with a tour to Sydney from July 9 to 12.
23 Jul 03 | There were eight of those veteran golfers who hit off in the 12 hole stableford event on Wednesday afternoon last week.
23 Jul 03 | The wisdom or teaching of self-awareness comes from the depths of time.
23 Jul 03 | More than 60 bowlers from throughout the district and the northwest joined Lightning Ridge District Bowling Club's president Peter Williams on Sunday to celebrate his day on President's Day.
23 Jul 03 | The successful tenderer for the $600,000 Eulalie Artesian Bore Scheme, the newest of the schemes conserving water from the Great Artesian Basin, has been appointed.
23 Jul 03 | Brian and Kirsten Trower, with their children Stephen, Gabrielle and Lily, left Australia for China in 2001 where they live in the province of Guangxi.
23 Jul 03 | More than 5300 visitors have utilised the services of the Lightning Ridge Visitor Information Centre and in recognition of the valuable contribution it makes to tourism, deputy prime minister and federal Gwydir MP John Anderson will officially open the centre today.
23 Jul 03 | Visitors are already pouring into the Ridge ready for next week's Opal Festival which is set to showcase some of the best opal in the Southern Hemisphere.
16 Jul 03 | The annual general meeting of the Lightning Ridge Women's Bowling Club was held last Saturday.
16 Jul 03 | As a rule, willpower directs energy and energy in its turn acts upon matter.
16 Jul 03 | Unbelievable. Another week of no golf until Friday (maybe) as it is very overcast again as I write this.
16 Jul 03 | Charles Waterhouse Nettleton's grave was marked in Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, on Wednesday last week.
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