12 Mar 10 | TENNIS NSW, in conjunction with Tennis Australia, held a junior development training day in Inverell last month. More than 60 junior tennis players attended from the North West region, including 13 players from Armidale.
12 Mar 10 | QUEENSLAND trainer Sandra McCormack has her sights firmly landed on bringing home the Guyra Cup this Sunday.
12 Mar 10 | YOUNG gun golfer Baxter Ward is the hot favourite to win this Sunday’s Ross Low Memorial junior golf tournament on the back of his victory in the Armidale Golf Club’s A-grade men’s championship.
12 Mar 10 | IT’S the pre-season hitout every club in the New England area looks forward to.
This year, the 27th instalment of the Armidale Knockout, will be no different.
12 Mar 10 | Saumarez Homestead is gearing up this week for a nine -day exhibition, ‘TEXSTYLE’, the textiles and design equivalent to the visual arts’ prestigious ‘Art Express’.
12 Mar 10 | ARMIDALE green thumbs are invited to ‘head down the hill’ this week for the 20th annual Bellingen Plant Fair.
12 Mar 10 | IT’S a tough gig, but someone’s got to do it.
That’s the challenge before whoever opts to tackle Tony Windsor, the Federal MP for New England, who enjoys one of the biggest margins in the country.
12 Mar 10 | Rob Paxevanos - the host of TV show Fishing Australia - was blown away by a visit to Bass Lodge on the Macleay River south east of Armidale.
12 Mar 10 | ARMIDALE will get a taste of railway history this weekend when a decades old rail motor chugs into town.
CPH’s 7 and 1, as they are now known, will pick up a group of travellers from Maitland before heading north to Armidale.
10 Mar 10 | DON FOSTER mastered the tricky conditions at the Wallamumbi Rifle Range on Sunday to win the Armidale Rifle Club’s 300-yards full bore target match.
10 Mar 10 | IN A FORMAT suited for the lower handicap players, Jan Kirk was always going to struggle to win the Armidale Golf Club women’s division one gross championship.
But that didn’t stop her from playing out of her skin to blitz the field in the nett category.
10 Mar 10 | DUVAL High School continued their dominance on the cricket pitch with a victory in the inaugural Armidale secondary school Twenty20 competition on Monday night.
Named the Toad Cup, standing for The Armidale School (TAS), O’Connor Catholic Collage, Armidale High and Duval High, it was a terrific individual performance from captain Matt Baillie which got Duval over the line.
10 Mar 10 | O’CONNOR Catholic College is the first Armidale school out of the blocks in declaring a mass student entry in this year’s Campus City Canter fun run and walk.
PE teacher Jenny Roff hopes to have as many as 75 students - from Years 7 to 12 - on the starting line at Sport UNE at 8am on Saturday week.
10 Mar 10 | The NSW Nationals elected Armidale businessman Andrew Wood as chairman of the Northern Tablelands State Electoral Council at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Bingara last Saturday.
Mr Wood was elected after outgoing chairman Archie Cameron decided not to recontest the position.
10 Mar 10 | HOW WOULD you represent life in New England with one photo and 25 words or less?
Get creative with your answer and and send it to the team organising Wool Expo, and you will be in the running to win a Canon SX1IS camera and a Selphy ES40 printer, worth $1200.
10 Mar 10 | A NEW website that will allow Australians to compare the quality of universities has been given the thumbs-up by University of New England Vice-Chancellor, Professor James Barber.
The Federal Government is to create the site, to be called My University, which will be online by January 2012.
10 Mar 10 | THE ARMIDALE Autumn Festival will be bigger and broader than ever before in 2010 - with celebrations set to run over four days from March 19 to 22.
The festival committee has been busy organising the expanded range of activities, and chairperson and mayor, Peter Ducat, is delighted that the Armidale Cup horse racing carnival will be part of the package this year.
08 Mar 10 | Armidale Dumaresq Council will host an official welcoming ceremony and procession through the Armidale Mall today for the newly appointed Vice Chancellor of the University of New England (UNE), Professor Jim Barber.
08 Mar 10 | BAXTER Ward became the youngest winner of the Armidale Golf Club men’s A-grade club championship after he outlasted George Marshall in a thrilling final round yesterday.
In what was a fairytale ending, Ward’s mother Vanessa also claimed the women’s A-grade championship – believed to be the first time a mother and son have won simultaneous club championships at Armidale.
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08 Mar 10 | NEW ENGLAND Rugby Union endured a tough day at the office on Saturday, after the first grade team copped a barrage of injuries and a defeat at the hands of Central North.
In wintry conditions at Bellevue Oval, the game had to be called off just after half time when James Redmayne suffered a neck/shoulder injury, which required an ambulance to attend.
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