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Bruce Walker is presented with the cheque from Danny Millar.

Memorial Challenge funds much appreciated by Men of League

Gooloogong's Riley Whatman will be running in Photo: Ben Rodin

Gooloogong athlete raises funds to support charity for Uganda trip

Ben Rodin

NEW COLOURS: Star back Lee McClintock will call Jack Arrow Oval home in 2020 after signing up for Zac Merritt coached Saints. Photo: ANYA WHITELAW

McClintock makes a switch to Saint Pat's for season 2020

Anya Whitelaw

Bruce Walker is presented with the cheque from Danny Millar.

Memorial Challenge funds much appreciated by Men of League

GAME ON: Ellie Carpenter in action back in 2018. Photo: NEWCASTLE HERALD

Cowra's Carpenter named player of the match for Matildas

LEGEND OF THE GAME: John Hamilton watches on during daughter Grace's debut as Australian captain at Newcastle earlier this year. Photo: MARINA NEIL

Vale John Hamilton: Tributes fly in for a legend of the game

Matt Findlay

Major Cathryn Williamson from the Cowra Salvation Army is calling on the community to help those less fortunate this Christmas by putting a hamper together. Photo: Kelsey Sutor

Cowra community urged to dig deep and help the Salvos this Christmas

Kelsey Sutor

Marie Whiteman and Fay Baxter with her life membership plaque.

Two reasons to celebrate for Cowra Ladies Probus

Members busy in the kitchen at Cowra Show are Mary Cooper, Helen Finlay, Jean Sandberg, Ann Apthorpe, Ros Ryan and Amanda Newcombe.

Busy months for Cowra Evening CWA

Major Cathryn Williamson from the Cowra Salvation Army is calling on the community to help those less fortunate this Christmas by putting a hamper together. Photo: Kelsey Sutor

Cowra community urged to dig deep and help the Salvos this Christmas

Book Fair Coordinators Len Shepherdson and Bruce Pietsch pictured in 2017.

Something for everyone at Cowra Anglican Book Fair

Club president Annette Lynch thanking Robyn Ryan for her presentation.

Advice for plant enthusiasts at Cowra Garden Club

What's your plan: Having a Bushfire Survival Plan will help you avoid making last minute decisions that could be deadly.

Ensure you have a fire plan

One of the greatest benefits of the digital health industry will be unprecedented equity in the services and level of patient care available.

Closing the gap

Lyndell Whyte

Vehicles face airbag registration ban

Vehicles face airbag registration ban

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What's your plan: Having a Bushfire Survival Plan will help you avoid making last minute decisions that could be deadly.

Ensure you have a fire plan

Future Focus: connecting regional Australia

Future Focus: connecting regional Australia

Gemma Purves

FESTIVAL: There will be plenty to see and do outside the pavilions with a variety of food and market stalls, entertainment and childrens rides.

Expo lights up Bathurst

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RENTAL MARKET: The region's most expensive place to rent revealed in new data. Photo: FILE

Region's rising rental costs, with one town jumping by 14 per cent

Nadine Morton

REAL ESTATE: Here's what $350,000 will buy you around the Central West and Orana. Photo: FILE

PHOTOSWhat $350,000 buys you around the Central West, Orana

Nadine Morton

#TrainHack participants will travel to Armidale on the XPT train.

Inaugural #Trainhack postponed due to bushfires

Gemma Purves

A look back at history with Throwback Thursday: August 2002 Pt 6

PHOTOSA look back at history with Throwback Thursday: August 2002 Pt 6

Cowra Art Group Patron Christine Delaney presenting the People’s Choice Award to Cowra’s Dallas Nyberg at the conclusion of the Lachlan Valley Biennial Art Awards.

Cowra Art Group enjoys success through October

#TrainHack participants will travel to Armidale on the XPT train.

Inaugural #Trainhack postponed due to bushfires

October AGM elects CWA office bearers for 2020

October AGM elects CWA office bearers for 2020

Who will it be for 2020?: 2019 Australian of the Year award winners. Photo: Salty Dingo

32 great Aussies vying for national honours

The long form TV style gives time for the exploration of landscape, stories, culture and history. Picture: Supplied.

The outback uses 'slow TV' to share stories, culture

A tale to tell: North Haven residents Jodie and Nathan Gardner present day (left) and the Port News photo after Nathan's birth in 2009 (right).

Were you involved in a highway delivery 10 years ago?

Port Macquarie - a lifetime ago: Well, about a fortnight ago anyway. Photo: Brittany Daly

REAL AUSTRALIAA dollop of tolerance goes a long way

REGULAR DONOR: Paul McLean donates plasma fortnightly at the Australian Red Cross Lifeblood service in Warrnambool.

South-west Victorians urged to give blood as fires rage

Ex-cop rescues koala as northern NSW burns

Ex-cop rescues koala as northern NSW burns

Ben Smyth

A look back at history with Throwback Thursday: August 2002 Pt 6

PHOTOSA look back at history with Throwback Thursday: August 2002 Pt 6

Stitching together the fabric of localism

REAL AUSTRALIAStitching together the fabric of localism

CALM REFUGE: Gail Sheehan and Carol Booth, playing the harp, to soothe Oscar who is almost blind. Photo: Letitia Fitzpatrick.

Watch Carol play the harp to soothe blind horse after fleeing fires

Letitia Fitzpatrick

Preparing teens for jobs that don't exist yet

OPINIONPreparing teens for jobs that don't exist yet

Brent Lehmann

'Pray for rain, pray harder for leadership'

OPINION'Pray for rain, pray harder for leadership'

Badja Sparks

Port Macquarie - a lifetime ago: Well, about a fortnight ago anyway. Photo: Brittany Daly

REAL AUSTRALIAA dollop of tolerance goes a long way

Janine Graham

RAINBOW RIBBON: Queensland AIDS Council CEO Rebecca Reynolds, Arcare CEO Colin Singh, Local Liberal state member for Bonney, Sam OConnor at the opening of Arcare Parkwood.

Queensland's first LGBTI aged care opens

OUCH: Corticosteroid injections versus orthotics.

Heel pain: to jab or not to jab?

BLAST FROM THE PAST: Polio survivors at Polio Australia's 2017 health and wellness retreat on the Sunshine Coast.

Demanding action for polio survivors

Rowan Cowley

Fire conditions in Queensland remain grim.

Queensland fires flare as winds pick up

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Andrew Hastie is unrepentant about his criticisms that have seen him barred from a trip to China.

Liberal MP refuses to back down on China

Firefighters and residents northwest of Sydney have been trying to prepare for conditions to worsen.

Anxious wait as NSW bushfire rages

The government is set to ban the import of bump stock devices that increase gun firing speed.

Rapid-fire gun attachments set for ban

The NSW government has kicked in another $200k to help clean up fire-ravaged areas.

NSW govt boosts bushfire aid by $200k

Aine Fox

Greens MP Adam Bandt has defended Jordon Steele-John's spray over climate change.

Greens MP backs senator's 'arsonist' spray

Matt Coughlan

The fire danger in northern NSW and Sydney will increase as conditions worsen this week.

Bushfire crews backburn to protect homes

Aine Fox

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is resisting calls to speed up tax cuts and other stimulation measures .

Treasurer sticking to his guns on economy

Matt Coughlan

ON THE MARKET: Do you have an interesting real estate story that could be featured in an upcoming edition? Please email brendan.crabb@illawarramercury.com.au with details. Picture: Supplied

Luxury Jamberoo property with popular farm-stay cottage listed for sale

Brendan Crabb

DRAINED: Tony Sergi is incredibly disappointed in the government knowing they are 'playing politics' with our donated water. PHOTO: Jacinta Dickins

'Playing politics' with MIA irrigator's plan to donate water

Jacinta Dickins

Home on the range where the bore water is forever on tap. This unique property is up for sale.

A farm where the water never runs out

John Ellicott

Our team took blood samples, four DNA samples and imbedded two GPS tracking devices while myself and eight others worked hard to keep the animal upright. Photos: Scott McRae

Combining conservation with wanderlust

Scott McRae

Working out how to switch off all the lights in a hotel room shouldn't be that difficult ... should it? Picture: Supplied

Room for improvement: What hotels could be doing better

Michael Turtle

Wineglass Bay: Guests will learn about the unique animals that live there and the peninsula's history, including the pink granite peaks of the Hazards Mountains.

Have wanderlust? Here are travel news bites

COLOUR POP: Next year's hottest colours reflect everything from our current faves to environmental concerns. All furniture available at essentialhome.eu.

Take a seat and check out the colour trends for 2020

Paul said the owners are especially happy with the rich internal palette. Images: andymacphersonstudio.com

Built to blend into Byron Bay

The plastics and metals used to make mobile phones are valuable resources that can be recovered and made into new products, reducing the need to mine.

How is your Recycling Week going?