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10:44 AM AEDT | The Armidale & District Poultry Club will capitalise on a resurgence of interest in the breeding and exhibition of poultry and waterfowl, staging an inaugural Novice & Junior Show on March 28.
9:55 AM AEDT | The year got off to a great start at Armidale City Public School as it welcomed new students to Kindergarten and a new assistant principal.
9:53 AM AEDT | FRESH from opening Chinese New Year celebrations in Sydney, 18 young performers will bring a dragon and two lions to life in Nundle for the annual Go For Gold Chinese Easter Festival.
The Australian Yau Kung Mun Chinese Martial Art Association returns by popular demand, having captivated festival-goers with their exuberance, colour and skill at the 2008 Nundle Festival.
9:52 AM AEDT | THE NATIONALS Senator for NSW, Inverell’s John Williams, has expressed severe disappointment that a drought ‘Exceptional Circumstances’ (EC) declaration has been denied for the Bundarra district.
9:45 AM AEDT | Armidale regional airport is one of 24 participating in a 2009-2010 Regional Airport Training and Exercise (RATE) Program, which trains police and other crisis workers in counter-terrorism strategies.
The NSW Police Force Counter Terrorism and Special Tactics Command will co-ordinate the specialist training.
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 | 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 | Students at Newling Public School are performing miracles.
Year 6 students and helpers have transformed a garden at the front of the school from a rubbish-ridden scrub to an environmentally-friendly haven.
08 Mar 10 | AMNESTY’S Armidale - UNE Group will hold its first 2010 meeting tomorrow, after taking a break late last year.
08 Mar 10 | RAY Williams is a man who knows a thing or two about agricultural shows.
And he should.
He has been on the Armidale show committee for about 40 years and on the Uralla committee for 60 years - 50 of those as chief steward.
08 Mar 10 | The NSW Department of Planning has released its Local Development Performance Monitoring Report for 2008-2009, with results for Armidale Dumaresq Council (ADC) continuing to compare well with those for similar councils.
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