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18 Mar 10 | Floodwaters are approaching Lightning Ridge but miners still have time to secure their claims if need be. While no one is sure of what the exact extent of the floodwaters will be it would be wise to be prepared.
18 Mar 10 | Late last year, Kate Ellis, Minister for Early Childhood Education, Child Care and Youth, and Linda Burney, NSW Minister for Community Services, announced that nine Children and Family Centres were to be built across NSW.
18 Mar 10 | On March 25 2010, a men’s gathering is being held by the Outback Division of General Practice at the Golf Club at 6pm.
Barbara a legend in her time
18 Mar 10 | RIP Barbara McCondra December 1941 – March 2010
Narran breaks banks
18 Mar 10 | Landholders and residents in the New Angledool area were last night expecting the Narran River to peak at 2.9m today.
Lightning Ridge marks international women’s day
11 Mar 10 | International Women’s Day celebrations began on Saturday when the local branch of the Soroptomist International (SI) hosted a luncheon in the dining room at the Lightning Ridge Bowling Club.
Aspiring models get chance at NOMA Opal Fashion Bash
11 Mar 10 | The opal industry is sponsoring the Opal Fashion Bash to be held in Townsville April 8 to 10 2010, for the third year.
Construction on new toilet block to begin soon
11 Mar 10 | At the meeting of the Walgett Shire Council on Tuesday February 23, a tender was awarded to Bowyer Constructions to erect a toilet block on Harlequin Street in Lightning Ridge.
Good turn out at local youth council AGM
11 Mar 10 | Twenty-two young people attended the Walgett Shire Youth Council AGM on Thursday March 4 2010 at the John Murray Meeting Room at the Lightning Ridge Bowling Club.
11 Mar 10 | The Chambers of the Black Hand is holding a meeting at the Lightning Ridge Bowling Club on March 31 2010 at 7pm.
Artist’s unlucky shot at Bald Archy
11 Mar 10 | Local artist, John Murray, recently entered The Budgie Smuggler in the Bald Archy.
Quick, cheap cash may end up costing
05 Mar 10 | The regular and one-off residents seeking to sell a few items from the homes or claims at the Sunday Trash ‘n’ Treasure Markets held every weekend will find this exchange and expensive endeavour after it was announced each individual stall holder must hold a $10 million public liability insurance policy to cover their trade.
05 Mar 10 | The District Court, last Monday in Dubbo, dismissed Mr Slack-Smith’s leave to appeal the Mining Warden’s decision to award costs to the LRMA.
05 Mar 10 | The young children of Lightning Ridge will benefit from a recent announcement after the Teacher Housing Authority revealed that the town was set to receive a new house and three units at the cost of $1.3 million to help retain staff at the local central school.
Year 12 student holds hopes for future as cop
05 Mar 10 | As part of the NSW Police Force Aboriginal Employment Strategy, Western Region Police Commands have launched an innovative program to provide Aboriginal high school students with employment with police as part of their HSC.
Enough is enough
05 Mar 10 | Since buying the Crocodile Caravan Park approximately two-and-a-half years ago we found that we have had to go to the extremes of putting in sercurity cameras and security fencing around the boundary of the park due to an ongoing occurance of intruders entering our premises after dark.
Underground check-up
05 Mar 10 | The strange Alpha GeoScience Geophysical Services vehicle spotted last Tuesday has been scanning the Ridge’s roads.
Bush Safari donates massive amount to causes
25 Feb 10 | The Lightning Ridge Police Bush Safari (LRPBS) held their Annual General Meeting last Thursday where they distributed the funds they raised throughout 2009.
Pool works on schedule to be completed in time
25 Feb 10 | Work along the trench in Pandora Street is on schedule to be completed today after the contractors successfully finished laying more than a kilometre of piping from the towns main bore pipe to the indoor pool centres plant room.
Council gives centre needed money
25 Feb 10 | The Australian Opal Centre has found itself no longer between a rock and a hard place after discovering they may have had to turn away a $40,000 grant they received from the Federal Government in late 2009.
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