26 Aug 04 | Lightning Ridge Women's Bowling Club monthly meeting will be held on Saturday.
Members are encouraged to come.
26 Aug 04 | What a week of golf. The 2nd Round Singles Championships were held on Wednesday with A grader Kath Johnston still holding her good lead from Carmel Fiddling and Kay Hogan making up some ground.
26 Aug 04 | Congratulations go to all our soccer players this weekend with reports of excellently played games.
26 Aug 04 | On the weekend our juniors played their last home game of the season providing some great results in front of a bumper crowd.
26 Aug 04 | Obituary
Albert Walford, a man loved by many, sadly died August 13.
Albert was very proud of his racial and cultural heritage but judged people not by the colour of their skin, but by the content of the character and how they conducted themselves.
26 Aug 04 | The State Government has reminded landholders to be on the lookout for locusts, following reports of isolated hatchings near Lightning Ridge and areas north of Narrabri.
26 Aug 04 | Work has started on constructruction of a dam to store excess stormwater, designed to supply irrigation to the sports fields all year.
26 Aug 04 | Lightning Ridge's Opal and Fossil Centre project has gained momentum following a commitment from Walgett Shire Council for funding of $500,000.
19 Aug 04 | This weekend Saturday sees our junior rugby league sides play host in the last home game of the season.
19 Aug 04 | The Lightning Ridge Strikers travelled to Walgett on the weekend with all the teams playing well against the Wolves.
19 Aug 04 | Wednesday women's titles
19 Aug 04 | The Ridge Tigers junior league teams returned from Mungindi last weekend with all producing efforts, but no wins on the board.
19 Aug 04 | The Far West Area Health Service (FWAHS), in conjunction with its 12 health advisory councils, has launched a series of local Health Services Directories for far western NSW.
19 Aug 04 | Lightning Ridge Historical Society snippets
19 Aug 04 | Lightning Ridge marked Vietnam Veterans Day yesterday with a small ceremony at the Returned Services League Club sub-branch.
Around 30 people attended the service to remember all those who died during the Vietnam War.
19 Aug 04 | More water will flow into NSW after the release of the Queensland Government's water resource management plan last week, but NSW farmers say this will do nothing to fix the problems of the past 20 years.
12 Aug 04 | Farmers are demanding a halt to the continued environmental degradation of their land by opal mining and have called for a more concerted effort to rehabilitate it.
12 Aug 04 | Lightning Ridge Central School held its primary school athletics carnival last Friday.
The students participated in a whole range of events including discus, high jump, shot put and running events.
12 Aug 04 | The men's championship was competed on Sunday August 1. Ron Hogan won A grade, Joe Popovic was the winner in B grade and Knud Nexo won the C grade title. Knud Nexo won the medal round and played so well he even surprised himself.
12 Aug 04 | On Sunday we played a modified stableford, which was won by Kevin Gartlan on +15.
Robbie Cotten was the runner-up on +13.
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