Local News
02 Sep 10 | Boorowa Council has endorsed the replacement of the shire’s bus.
At the Boorowa Shire Council meeting on Monday, August 23 acting general manager Therese Mann recommended the council endorse the purchase of a new bus.
02 Sep 10 | Boorowa Council has voted to re-introduce the town’s alcohol free zone.
The move came after acting general manager Therese Mann recommended the council establish the zone in the town.
02 Sep 10 | Local organisations shared in $38,000 worth of funding at the Boorowa Community Bank annual Grants Presentation Night last Wednesday.
26 Aug 10 | Sam and Nikki Burton Taylor have officially opened their butchery in Marsden Street, having taken over from the Donohoe’s family business which was sold after 84 years.
19 Aug 10 | tween seven candidates in the Federal Election, all vying for the seat of Hume.
Hume covers an area of approximately 33,637 sq km from Cowra in the north to Wee Jasper in the south and parts of the Southern Highlands from Picton and Wilton in the east to Young and Cootamundra in the west.
12 Aug 10 | From Friday August 20 to Sunday August 22 the Sisters of Mercy Goulburn Congregation Sesquicentenary Exhibition will be open to the public in St Patrick’s School Hall in Boorowa.
12 Aug 10 | Council has slashed its budgeted contribution to this year’s Woolfest by $15,000 in order to allocate funding to repair local roads.
05 Aug 10 | Rain failed to dampen enthusiasm at St Joseph’s Primary School last Wednesday as they unveiled their brand new library.
29 Jul 10 | After more than a decade of heartbreak and failed crops, it looks like NSW farmers are finally within reach of a record yielding winter crop harvest.
29 Jul 10 | Boorowa Shire councillors this week questioned why the town’s new bicycle path project had come in $152,364 over budget.
22 Jul 10 | Boorowa will head to the polls along with the rest of the nation on Saturday August 21 after Julia Gillard called an election just three weeks into her prime ministership.
22 Jul 10 | Boorowa was not spared from the wild weather that lashed parts of the state last week with uprooted trees and fallen power lines just some of the damage reported across the shire.
15 Jul 10 | Boorowa region sheep farmers are at risk of seeing thousands of dollars wiped off the value of wool from a typical sheared flock due to damage caused by lice.
15 Jul 10 | Around 400 people attended Saturday night’s third annual Ben Corkhill charity fundraiser Music Muster at the Boorowa Showground in what organisers are calling a huge success.
08 Jul 10 | The start of the 2010 financial year on July 1 not only means it is time to start doing the numbers for your tax return, it also means that a wide number of changes have already been brought into effect.
08 Jul 10 | Boorowa men of all ages were given some valuable and potentially life saving advice at an informative health seminar “Men’s Health Matters” held at the Ex-Services Club on Monday night.
01 Jul 10 | A significant rural theft has occurred on a rural property near Rugby.
A range of agricultural items and produce have been stolen some time after Sunday June 20, 2010 leaving the victim to suffer a significant financial loss.
24 Jun 10 | unity members from Boorowa, Harden/Murrumburrah, Binalong, Galong and surrounding districts gathered at the Boorowa Ex-Services Club on Wednesday June 16 to farewell Rev’d. Father Greg Beath after his six years as Parish Priest of St. Patrick’s Church in Boorowa.