Local News
01 Sep 10 | GREENBUSHES Golf Club celebrated its 50th anniversary with an open day golf event and dinner at the weekend.
The club’s last surviving, founding member, Dave Tindale, travelled to Greenbushes for the occasion as did other past players and members.
01 Sep 10 | THE caravan park was filled by Westside Caravan Club members and other accommodation was fully booked for the 2010 Nannup Flower and Garden Festival. There were lots of day trippers and several buses brought in visitors.
01 Sep 10 | CONTROVERSY over the future of the Forest Products Commission (FPC) continued last week with claims Forestry Minister Terry Redman was attempting to hide his plan for the FPC.
01 Sep 10 | TALENTED artist Gabriel Evans displayed his skills at the launch for his latest book, Oceans Calling.
01 Sep 10 | LOSING a loved one is heartbreaking, and each and everyone left behind, mourns and deals with the loss in his or her own way.
01 Sep 10 | A SCIENTIFIC study commissioned by Apple and Pear Australia Ltd (APAL) could be the key to a successful appeal against a WTO ruling that Australia must allow imports of apples from fire blight-affected countries, Donnybrook fruit growers heard last week
25 Aug 10 | AGRICULTURE and Food Minister Terry Redman has deserted his home base by slashing 28 Forest Product Commission (FPC) jobs in his own electorate according to Shadow Agriculture Minister Mick Murray.
25 Aug 10 | THE Water Corporation is encouraging locals to review an environmental referral document on the controversial planned upgrade of Millstream Dam, near Bridgetown.
25 Aug 10 | SCHOOLS in Papua New Guinea will benefit from a hefty donation of books from the library of St Mary’s School at Boyup Brook.
25 Aug 10 | DEREK O’Hare was swamped by sewing machines needing repair when he was one of a party of Seventh Day Adventists on a visit to the Ramu region of northern Papua New Guinea.
25 Aug 10 | LOW rainfall this winter has resulted in drastically reduced inflow into dams providing public drinking water in local areas.
25 Aug 10 | BRILLIANT colour greeted visitors to the weekend Nannup Flower and Garden Festival, which this year had a Myths and Legends theme.
25 Aug 10 | A LOCAL business owner is angry about a drastic rate rise on his South Western Highway property in Donnybrook.
17 Aug 10 | GOVERNMENT moves to appeal against a decision forcing Australia to allow importation of New Zealand apples have been welcomed by peak fruit growing bodies.
17 Aug 10 | KIRUP locals turned out in droves to a garage sale to raise money for cancer patient Alana Bartlett.
17 Aug 10 | EXCHANGING the peace and serenity of the Lowden bush for the chaos of an Indian village in Uttarakhan, a northern Indian state in the Kumaon Himalayas, in is a labour of love for Scott Bartholomew and Bonnie Flynn.
17 Aug 10 | MOBS of feral pigs will soon be under attack.
17 Aug 10 | NANNUP’S tulips should be at their best for annual Flower and Garden Festival which starts on Thursday and runs till Monday, August 23.
17 Aug 10 | A KANGAROO was left to suffer after having its legs shot off outside Kirup.
17 Aug 10 | TWENTY-FIVE staff members have reportedly left St Brigid’s Primary School in Bridgetown in the past four years.
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