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Inverell RSM Fishing Club Members, Mayor Paul Harmon, Member for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall and councillors Anthony Michael and Stewart Berryman give a thumbs up to the major upgrade for Copeton Dam's Northern Foreshore.

Progress tracking well for $5.7 million upgrade of Copeton Dam's Northern Foreshores

Laini Kirkman

Work begins to relocate Inverell Community Gardens

Work begins to relocate Inverell Community Gardens

Laini Kirkman

Testing vital: NSW Health has encouraged people to continue coming forward for testing to ensure community transmission remains low.

NSW records 12 cases and one death, as elderly Sydney woman dies from COVID-19

Kate McIlwain

Inverell Pipe Band welcomes new faces. Photo by Inverell Shire Council.

Inverell Pipe Band receives grant to upgrade half a century old instruments and equipment

Laini Kirkman

Inverell Lions Club member and Sapphire City Market coordinator Philip Beaton was honoured with an award for outstanding service this week.

Inverell Lions Club member Philip Beaton receives award for outstanding service

Laini Kirkman

Members of the 7th Division and Ran Commandos at prayer during the thanksgiving service held in the Salvation Army hut in Balikpapan, Borneo on Victory in the Pacific Day on August 15, 1945. Photo: Australian War Memorial

VP Day an opportunity to reflect

Sophie Harris

"I want to see a greater uptake in all those categories. If we don't, we will consider further measures in which we can increase that uptake."

NSW Premier foreshadows stricter measures, as state records 18 new cases

Kate McIlwain

Inverell RSM Fishing Club Members, Mayor Paul Harmon, Member for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall and councillors Anthony Michael and Stewart Berryman give a thumbs up to the major upgrade for Copeton Dam's Northern Foreshore.

Progress tracking well for $5.7 million upgrade of Copeton Dam's Northern Foreshores

Laini Kirkman

Work begins to relocate Inverell Community Gardens

Work begins to relocate Inverell Community Gardens

Laini Kirkman

Saints and Celts take one win each in junior clashes | Photos

PHOTOSSaints and Celts take one win each in junior clashes | Photos

50 years of history on winless Crows' side

50 years of history on winless Crows' side

Justine McCullagh-Beasy

Cooper Ford, Scott's sister Kayla Fermor with Chloe, Lorae Schwark, Dustin Ford, Bec Solomon, Colin Fermor, Patsy Fermor, Meg Fermor and Melia Sloman, Justin Solomon, and Brian Sloman. Photo: contributed.

Scott Fermor Memorial Gates officially opened at 'cracker' race day

Jem Nash

Titans' coach Justin Holbrook: Hanging on tight as the NRL merry-go-rounds speeds up.

And the NRL merry-go-round speeds up again

Janine Graham

50 years of history on winless Crows' side

50 years of history on winless Crows' side

Saints and Celts take one win each in junior clashes | Photos

PHOTOSSaints and Celts take one win each in junior clashes | Photos

Jem Nash

Sacked Dragons coach Paul McGregor deserves to bow out with his head held high. Photo: Mark Kolbe/Getty Images

OPINIONBlame for Dragons' season doesn't just rest with McGregor

Laurie Daley

Marketing jewel: Tacking Point Lighthouse is one of the many features that attracts visitors to Port Macquarie.

Grounded international travellers a target for local tourism markets

Peter Daniels

Head to the Kimberley for the Ord Valley Muster. Picture: Sarah Duguid Photography

Kimberley's northern muster to celebrate 20th anniversary

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Sunset over Glasshouse Restaurant. Picture: Destination NSW

Take me home, country roads... to Tamworth's epic food scene

Explore Travel

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Inverell Pipe Band welcomes new faces. Photo by Inverell Shire Council.

Inverell Pipe Band receives grant to upgrade half a century old instruments and equipment

Laini Kirkman

Buy from the Bush comes to Inverell

WHAT'S ONBuy from the Bush comes to Inverell

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Scott Fermor honoured as MX club's new start gates to be officially opened

WHAT'S ONScott Fermor honoured as MX club's new start gates to be officially opened

Jem Nash

Inverell Pipe Band welcomes new faces. Photo by Inverell Shire Council.

Inverell Pipe Band receives grant to upgrade half a century old instruments and equipment

Speech pathologists Anne Williams and Linda Foskey created Sounds good to me
to help early educators prepare their children for the school environment. Photo: supplied.

WHAT'S ONSounds good to me to host free webinar for Education Week

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Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall tackles time for a selfie with Bingara Central School students at the recent orange picking ceremony.

$5,000 grant to ensure fruitful 2021 Bingara Happy Days Orange Festival

Power of education: Solicitor Paul Ell was just one of the thousands of young people assisted by the Learning for Life program that is supported by VIEW Clubs of Australia. Photo: Supplied.

The club that offers children a view to a better future

Dayle Latham

Everyone's a winner with Pennytel

Everyone's a winner with Pennytel

Emma Brown

Making a difference: Natasha Bull and her grandmother Evelyn Berg.

Family affair: The united front of women with passion for supporting kids in need

Rosie Ryan

Power of education: Solicitor Paul Ell was just one of the thousands of young people assisted by the Learning for Life program that is supported by VIEW Clubs of Australia. Photo: Supplied.

The club that offers children a view to a better future

Spring clean your life and finances

Spring clean your life and finances

Emma Brown

From lifesaving to sanity saving, good customer service works

From lifesaving to sanity saving, good customer service works

Emma Brown

OPTIMISM: Median prices for both houses and units in Alice Springs have shown an uplift in the recently completed quarter, giving cause for some level of optimism in the local market. Photo - Shutterstock.

Regions showing resilience

Ruth Lewis

Housing figures on a COVID rollercoaster

Housing figures on a COVID rollercoaster

Ruth Lewis

OVER THE RIVER: Investors are looking further afield for locations where there is good
rental demand and potential for capital gains. Photo - Shutterstock.

A rise in remote investing as regions gain appeal

Ruth Lewis

Remember, there's no one quite like you ...

Remember, there's no one quite like you ...

Gary Bentley

WATCH OUT: If the scam is sent by email, it is likely to include an attachment or link to a fake website where you will be asked to download proof of the 'bill', 'fine' or 'delivery details'. Opening the attachment or downloading the file could infect your computer with malware.

Scamwatch: Has someone asking for money threatened you with arrest?

Keith shares tale of battle

Keith shares tale of battle

Remember, there's no one quite like you ...

Remember, there's no one quite like you ...

AT THE CROSS: Acting President of the Victor Harbor RSL Kent Johncock with WW2 veterans Norman Ginn, Don Bartel and Laurence Jennings with his carer dog Bailey Potts.

Veterans mark victory day

Michael Simmons

Connecting with your true self is the secret

Connecting with your true self is the secret

Gary Bentley

How August 13 plated out - coffee, queues and quarantine. Photos: file

DIGESTCoffee, queues and quarantine

Kim and Robyn Cartwright. They have a thousand sheep about to lamb back home near Crookwell. Picture: James Wiltshire/Border Mail

EXPLAINERThe stuck Canberrans are coming home. But there are others left behind

Get in that car and rive. Photo: file

DIGESTForget jail, go straight to the ACT

"I want to see a greater uptake in all those categories. If we don't, we will consider further measures in which we can increase that uptake."

NSW Premier foreshadows stricter measures, as state records 18 new cases

Ross and Helen Muir are ACT residents and are stuck in Wodonga at the Wellington Motel. Picture: Mark Jesser/The Border Mail

Calls for federal intervention on NSW-Victoria border crisis

Katie Burgess

Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

Federal minister intervened at Newmarch House amid COVID-19 chaos

Sally Whyte

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian. Picture: Getty Images

ANALYSISExplainer: How did this border chaos kick off?

Steve Evans

Picture: Shutterstock

Attendance records examined as Batemans Bay students test positive to coronavirus

Kathryn Lewis

Saints and Celts take one win each in junior clashes | Photos

PHOTOSSaints and Celts take one win each in junior clashes | Photos

New Guinea, July 1945: Troops of the New Guinea Infantry Battalion wade through a stream on their way to attack a Japanese position.

A Digger's harrowing one in a million story from the New Guinea front

NEW LIFE: Bathurst's Chezzi and Grant Denyer have announced that they're expecting a baby. Photo: CHRIS SEABROOK

SUBSCRIBERWatch as Grant and Chezzi Denyer announce their baby news

Sharks down south: a brief history of attacks and close encounters

SUBSCRIBERSharks down south: a brief history of attacks and close encounters

Murder probe: Bruce Anthony Coss, left, is charged with murdering Darren Willis. Robert James Stonestreet is accused of concealing it. Photos: NSW Police

SUBSCRIBERNo new bid for bail for pair charged in connection to 2010 murder

Breanna Chillingworth

Doing the right thing. Picture: Shutterstock

EXPLAINERWhat is the best and latest advice on masks?

Steve Evans

ROAD TRIP: Melbourne band Private Function drive down High Street Wodonga in their film clip for the song titled 'Albury Wodonga'. Picture: SCREENSHOT

Band releases 'rock 'n' roll love letter' to Albury-Wodonga

Vivienne Jones

Success: Critical care paramedic Matt Gane had a dramatic water rescue on his first day working with the Wollongong ambulance helicopter crew. Picture: Anna Warr

How a helicopter paramedic rescued a fisherman on his first day on the job

Ashleigh Tullis

Lots in a name - let's leave the Karens alone

OPINIONLots in a name - let's leave the Karens alone

John Malouff
2hrs ago

Do we judge people by their future earning capacity - and is that why we neglect our elderly? Picture: Shutterstock

OPINIONLet's face it, we don't care for our aged

Jenna Price

BAD INVESTMENT: The fact is that coal and gas are both facing declining global demand. Picture: SHUTTERSTOCK

OPINIONHow Australia is suffering a resource curse

John Hewson

Qantas flight attendant Sara Armbrecht at the Qantas Founders Museum holding two dolls dressed in her minature Qantas uniforms: a Pucci unform worn 1974 to 1985 (left) and the current uniform designed by Martin Grant.

Flights of fashion: Doll collection celebrates century of Qantas uniforms

Geraldine Cardozo

Reforms for NSW retirement villages.

Retirement village reforms welcomed

Eileen Wood

Daniel Andrews says Victoria has a long way to go before stage four restrictions can be eased.

Vic records 14 virus deaths, 372 new cases

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NSW Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall

NSW Ag Minister hears accepts farmer rage first-hand

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Tangara School for Girls and another Sydney school are closed until August 24 after COVID-19 cases.

COVID-19 diagnosis shuts Sydney school

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COVID DIVIDE: Paula Gust with husband Scott Carberry. Picture: CONTRIBUTED.

SUBSCRIBERFamily forced apart by SA border restrictions

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Sgt Gary Keevers with the live ammunition found.

Army destroys live explosives found at military museum

Ashleigh Tullis
1hr ago

Border closures are affecting farm supply chains and Australians' wellbeing, David Littleproud says.

Border closures impact on health, farming

1hr ago

The Ruby Princess is linked to more than 20 coronavirus-related deaths across Australia.

Ruby Princess report handed to NSW govt

2hrs ago

'Impossible' to replace backpackers with Aussies

'Impossible' to replace backpackers with Aussies

Catie McLeod
2hrs ago

King Creek Pascoe P658 sold for $8500 to Ray White Livestock, Tamworth. Photo: King Creek Limousins

National interest in King Creek Limousin sale

Lucy Kinbacher
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Competition winning crop of dryland wheat in the Riverina. Photo: Tom Dwyer

Pathogen burden in NSW winter cereal cropping

Stephen Burns
1hr ago

Kim Bath, Gamble, Walcha, was thrilled when her five Hereford-cross steers sold for 300 cents a kilogram ($1629 a head) at the Tamworth Regional Livestock Exchange on Tuesday. Photo: Michelle Mawhinney

Grass fed demand drive

Jamie Brown

Keep checking the simple things regularly, especially on vehicles that get used less often.

You should still check things even if it's mostly parked up

Sam Hollier

Warm your home (and your heart) with a spot of timber

Warm your home (and your heart) with a spot of timber

Happy, healthy and so cute despite the unexpected way she arrived. Picture: Supplied

OPINIONThrow out the birth plan and go with the flow

Christy Kidner