10:24 AM AEST | BENDICK Murrell Public School is preparing to celebrate their 125th anniversary with a big day of activities and reunions planned for Saturday October 4.
10:23 AM AEST | MAKE sure to watch Australian Idol on Channel 10 tomorrow night to glimpse the first audition by local shearer Luke Dickens.
10:22 AM AEST | NEW general manager Peter Vlatko started his first day at Young Shire Council on Monday and has made a quick start meeting the staff.
10:20 AM AEST | THE Young Chamber of Commerce first annual black tie dinner was a resounding success on Friday night at the Young Golf Club.
10:04 AM AEST | QUALITY and condition was very good across a yarding of 2500 at Young sheep and lamb sale on Wednesday morning with all regular buyers in attendance.
Lamb was firm on last sale, with mutton easing $2 to $4.
10:02 AM AEST | THUDDUNGRA residents are just that much more safe, secure and certain thanks to a Rural Fire Service RFS) local brigade initiative which has seen the installation of a permanent water tank and ready water supply for domestic and emergency use.
10:01 AM AEST | ALMOST $8000 was raised for the PCYC on Thursday with their PCYC Lock Your Boss Up charity event, with more money still coming in from the community following the great publicity generated by the spectacle.
28/08/2008 | FOUR time Australian V8 Supercar Champion John Bowe was the guest speaker at a tyre information night held by Beaurepaires and the NSW Farmers’ Association at Zouch Restaurant on Thursday.
21/08/2008 | WOMEN from Young and Grenfell gathered in Grenfell’s main street recently to clip together bras that have been donated by local women for the charity ‘Citizens Who Care’.
21/08/2008 | A 47-year-old male was arrested as he left a business in Boorowa on Tuesday, after an off duty police officer recognised the man as being wanted for interview in relation to a series of alleged fraud offences in...
21/08/2008 | SHEARER Luke Dickens has wowed the local pub scene with his vocal talents, but now he is off to show the country his flair with the microphone.
21/08/2008 | Minister for Agriculture, Tony Burke announced on Tuesday that the Federal Government had accepted the National Rural Advisory Council’s (NRAC) advice to extend drought assistance for drought-declared areas including Young.
21/08/2008 | ANNETTE Alexander, Director of Bunyip Pre School Harden has been highly honoured by being awarded the Advocate of the Year for early childhood education at the Childcare Cooperative’ NSW Awards gala night in Sydney last Saturday.
21/08/2008 | EIGHTEEN second year post graduate medical students from Australian National University (ANU) and nine second year post graduate allied health students from University of Canberra (UC) had a fantastic and eye-opening experience this week as they visited Young to gain insight into practicing in rural and regional areas.
21/08/2008 | YOUNG Shire Council abandoned its neutral stance on community radio this week to come out clearly in favour of 2YYY being retained as Young’s sole community radio station.
20/08/2008 | CANDIDATES for the upcoming local government elections are being invited to express their views on the future development of Young at an open forum to be conducted later this month.
20/08/2008 | ONE of the major figures involved in discussing regional water issues at the recent State Government Water Conference has been invited to see the complexities of water reform firsthand with a visit to the water authority that supplies water to Young.
20/08/2008 | IN a further expansion of the already internationally recognised local company Hydrodec, Japanese representatives from the company Kobelco visited Young this week, as plans progress for a new Hydrodec plant to be developed in Japan.
20/08/2008 | A NEW Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) report released on Friday points to significant changes in Malaysia’s food consumption as a strong opportunity for Australian exporters.
20/08/2008 | No pain, no rain... That was apparently one title suggested for the Draft Report of the Garnaut Climate Change Review released on 4 July, but, given that we are dealing with ‘likelihoods’ and not ‘certainties’, they stuck with the more academic ‘draft report’.