Local News
11 Mar 10 | Haggis will not be on the menu at the International Luncheon celebrating Scotland hosted by the Adaminaby branch of Country Women’s Association (CWA).
11 Mar 10 | A NEIGHBOUR using a pay phone saved Igor King’s home from burning to the ground in 1989.
11 Mar 10 | MS Australia’s Ann Lehmann and VIEW Club’s national vice president Fiona Spottiswood gave inspirational speeches as part of the International Women’s day breakfast at the YMCA Hub Youth Centre yesterday.
11 Mar 10 | YOUTH Week does not kick off until April 10 but the Cooma Youth Council already has the week’s calendar bursting with activities.
11 Mar 10 | Colinton airstrip applicants Chris Clearihan and Cheryl Love said they would appeal council’s order to remove unauthorised shipping containers from their property situated nine kilometres south of Michelago and 300 metres from the Monaro Highway.
09 Mar 10 | TWENTY-ONE year old Pru Marshall could not have asked for a bigger culture shock when she picked up from Western Sydney destined to begin her post as a nurse graduate at the Cooma Hospital last week.
09 Mar 10 | Competitors in the DT Swiss Mountains to Beach mountain bike race made a stop in Cooma at the end of Stage 7: The Ay-Up Dawn Raid last Wednesday.
09 Mar 10 | AUTHORISED Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) child restraint and seat belt fitting station owner Richard Mack said the new child restraint laws are not confusing, but designed to make car travel safer for children.
09 Mar 10 | Club swimmers, squad members and members of the public swam 21,920 laps of the 25m Cooma Festival Swimming Pool on the weekend as part of a 24-hour fundraising swim to raise money for a disabled chair lift at the pool.
09 Mar 10 | BOMBALA Street general practitioner Dr Andrew Egan has backed a proposal by the Federal Government to take over the nation’s health system, saying rural patients could get a bigger chunk of the health pie if the Fed’s were in charge.
04 Mar 10 | WHEN pensioner Sheila Matheson received a letter from an agency asking her to divulge an array of personal information in order to access an amount of unclaimed monies she was not about to be duped.
04 Mar 10 | THIS is war. Thirteen dancers, 11 weeks and the biggest single fundraising event the Monaro Committee for Cancer Research (MCCR) has ever undertaken.
The red carpet was rolled out on Tuesday night for the official launch of Cooma’s dancing with the stars competition.
04 Mar 10 | WHEN four-year-old Tamsyn Camwell heard she was no longer allowed to sit in the front with dad and had to go back in her car seat because it was the law she began to cry.
04 Mar 10 | PLANS to roll out a national curriculum has so far been given the tick of approval by Monaro Teachers Federation representative and Berridale school teacher Natalie Milliken.
04 Mar 10 | A group of residents from Colinton have rallied together to dispute the development of a private airstrip and storage facility at a neighbouring property.
02 Mar 10 | Cooma business, Hip Pocket and Safety has received national recognition with the announcement that it has been named the 35th fastest growing franchise in the country by magazine Business Review Weekly.
02 Mar 10 | After 15 months of hard work and dedication, Cooma TAFE art teacher, Tanja Riese has opened her first major solo exhibition ‘Journey of Arrival’ at Bega Valley Regional Gallery.
02 Mar 10 | Cooma GP, Dr Hamish Steiner said he could see both the potential benefits and drawbacks of a My Hospital website that would compare and rank hospitals across the nation, amidst speculation the Federal Government have plans for a My Hospital website.
02 Mar 10 | Ricky Brazulaitis of Cooma, during his ride in the novice bull event at the Cooma Rural Rodeo held at the showground on Saturday.
02 Mar 10 | COOMA commuters could be en route to Sydney from the Snowy Mountains airport as early as June 11. The announcement comes after carrier Aeropelican and Snowy Mountains Airport proprietors struck a deal that would see air services returned to the region after a more than two year absence.
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