Local News
03 Jul 09 | Knight Frank is pleased to announce they are now the Managing Agents for the Cowra Plaza Shopping Centre.
In business for over 100 years, Knight Frank is one of the world’s largest and most established companies of property consultants.
03 Jul 09 | Are you sick of replacing the displays in your shop front because of UV damage, not being able to watch your TV because of the blinding glare, and are those holiday road trips with the blazing sun taking their toll?
If they are call Robert Miller of TLC Window Tinting, because “we’ve got you covered”.
03 Jul 09 | Cowra Business owners are being urged to call the police if school children are visiting shops during school hours.
There has become an increasing trend from students, in particular high schoolers, being in town instead of attending classes.
03 Jul 09 | In less than 18 months, what is now an empty sporting field at Mulyan Public School will be transformed into a $1.7 million administration centre, described as one of the biggest projects in the region’s Education Infrastructure Program.
03 Jul 09 | by Kirilee Dagg
Cowra Public School Breakfast Club organisers are still looking for a milk sponsor so it can continue to give students their most important daily meal.
Between 30 and 60 Cowra Public School children attend the program, organised by Aboriginal Education Officer Dean Murray, each morning.
03 Jul 09 | New Wyangala Waters State Park manager Peter Burger (pictured) refuses to think of the dam at the heart of his park as emptying.
Instead to him it’s a case of just waiting for it to fill.
The former airforce serviceman is busy planning, preparing and brainstorming for the days when water
levels are not an issue for the park, and most of all, thinking positively.
03 Jul 09 | Local Employment and Training Solutions (LETS) is run by the well known not-for-profit organisation Centacare Wilcannia-Forbes, a local community provider committed to providing personalised, integrated training solutions and employment.
03 Jul 09 | Family members of Kristy Williams, murdered six years ago last month, are expected to join with police officers today and again publicly, desperately, appeal for information that may lead to solving her murder.
Minister for Police, Tony Kelly yesterday reiterated the NSW Government continues to offer $100,000 in reward for information leading to the arrest and
conviction of those responsible for the death of Kristy Lee Williams.
01 Jul 09 | Former Australian Idol contestant Luke Dickens will appear in Cowra on friday, July 3.
Luke is doing a tour the old fashioned way. It’s been a long time coming and he can’t wait to bring the show to the people that gave him the
opportunity to follow his passion – music.
01 Jul 09 | State Water representatives have confirmed they will attend a public meeting at Wyangala in July, while continuing to liase with dam wall closure opponents.
The organisation says a decision on an alternate route, following the closure of the road atop Wyangala Dam in approximately 18 months, will be negotiated in consultation with the local community including Cowra Council.
01 Jul 09 | Grab your wallet and fill up the car the NRMA is telling motorists, as economists predict more pain at the pump.
It is cheaper in Cowra to fill up compared to our close regional centres, according to Australian Institute of Petroleum prices last week.
01 Jul 09 | Cowra Shire Council has approved its budget for the next financial year.
The budget, which shows a deficit of $195,671 was approved at Monday’s Council meeting.
01 Jul 09 | July is usually the time when
gardeners like to stay at home, curl up by the fire, watch TV or read a good book.
The Garden Club invite you to venture out this Thursday night, July 2, to hear a very special guest speaker, traveling all the way from Deniliquin, at the club’s usual venue in the library air conditioned all purpose room at 7.30pm
01 Jul 09 | Cowra will mark NAIDOC Week with an
emphasis on openness, leadership and encouraging good role models for youth.
29 Jun 09 | State Water says the decision is yet to be finalised but it will recommend the upgrading of Mt McDonald Road as the access route into Wyangala, before it closes the dam wall to public vehicle access, instead of a bridge.
29 Jun 09 | Cowra Shire Council is expected to receive an extra $174,000 in the coming weeks, after the Federal Government announced on Thursday it was allocating an extra $245 million to councils for community infrastructure and local government reform initiatives.
29 Jun 09 | The Gilmore family’s Tattykeel stud triumphed again at this week’s New South Wales Poll Dorset Championships in Cowra, taking out The Land and Merial NSW Supreme Exhibit title, along with a handful of other ribbons.
29 Jun 09 | The Cowra Guardian Post will rise to $1.50 from Wednesday, July 1.
It is the first increase in some two and a half years despite the cost of wages, production, newspaper, insurance and virtually everything else continually on the rise.
29 Jun 09 | Paul Jones of Cowra Plaster Works has been busy, but with recent government funding he is expecting to be a lot busier.
Rule changes set to come into effect from July 1 will allow local homeowners to arrange $1600 worth of household insulation to be fitted without any out-of-pocket costs.
29 Jun 09 | After a very wet morning on Sunday, June 21, the sun shone while the Vocal Ensemble members from the Musical and Dramatic Society sang a variety of well known songs at Kalari Cellar Door.