Local News
01 Sep 10 | Coleambally Irrigation Co-operative Limited (CICL) recently hosted a visit by three members of the NSW Joint Parliamentary Standing Committee on Natural Resource Management.
01 Sep 10 | THE Coleambally-Argoon Branch of the CWA will mark the first NSW and ACT CWA Awareness day with a showcase of CWA activities and a birthday celebration.
01 Sep 10 | THE Murrumbidgee is the healthiest and best regulated river in Australia and has the best water sharing plan in NSW.
01 Sep 10 | A GROUP of locals interested in providing a secure future for the youth of Coleambally and Dalrington Point have been working over the last couple of months on forming a scholarship program.
24 Aug 10 | FROM ONR LOCAL GROUP TO ANOTHER: Coleambally Men’s Shed representative Bob Fraser receives a $200 Coly Hardware gift voucher from Coleambally Family Fishing Club president Brian Peet.
24 Aug 10 | TERRY Hogan AM leads a busy life trying to secure the future for communities across the region that rely on water for their survival.
24 Aug 10 | THE Coleambally Argoon CWA held its August meeting two weeks ago at the Coleambally Community Club.
24 Aug 10 | LOCALS have gone to the polls and spoken and two candidates have now been chosen to represent local concerns in our region.
18 Aug 10 | Rain in the Murrumbidgee Valley in late July and the first weeks of August has enabled the NSW Office of Water to increase high security allocations, including town water supply and stock and domestic entitlements to 95 per cent.
18 Aug 10 | THE Nationals candidate for Riverina, Michael McCormack spent last Thursday in Coleambally and Darlington Point.
18 Aug 10 | SOME of Coleambally Irrigation Cooperative Limited (CICL) and Coleambally Irrigation Mutual Cooperative Limited’s (CIMCL) directors and staff took time out last week to wish Kay Hull well on the eve of her retirement from federal politics.
18 Aug 10 | Riverina Vintage Machinery Club Inc will be hold its annual rally on August 21 and 22 at the Leeton Jockey Club grounds.
18 Aug 10 | NOW is the time for local farmers to start thinking positive and planing for the future without drought.
18 Aug 10 | COLEAMBALLY is edging towards the title of having the most solar energy power panels per capita after five new systems were installed on local rooftops last week.
18 Aug 10 | EACH year, the Coleambally Arts Council holds a music recital with the aim of giving students with addresses in the Murrumbidgee and Jerilderie shires the opportunity to perform in front of an audience.
18 Aug 10 | THE countdown to voting is almost over, the big issues are being debated on a national scale and once again The Observer is ensuring local candidates are facing the local issues head on as well.
11 Aug 10 | THE total rainfall for July in Coleambally has continued to give hope to farmers of better times.
11 Aug 10 | IT WAS once said that human-induced climate change “was the greatest moral challenge of our age” but there was very little scientific evidence put forward to sustain this statement.
11 Aug 10 | THIRTY local irrigators recently returned from the warmth of Darwin, Katherine and Kununurra to the winter chills of Coleambally – from shorts and T-shirts back to winter woollies.
11 Aug 10 | QUESTION: How will you ensure that the voices of small rural communities such as Coleambally and Darlington Point are heard in the national political arena?