Local News
10 Mar 10 | Many young rainbow lorikeets in Nyngan are learning to fly. Their single piping call for attention is a chance for hours of entertainment by the playful antics of our coloured feathered friends.
10 Mar 10 | At the Nyngan Evening View Club meeting this month we celebrated “Women’s International Day”.
10 Mar 10 | It was 1961 when the first Nyngan Brownie Pack commenced; we started with eight Brownies. They were enrolled in a ceremony which took place in the grounds of the old Anglican Church Hall.
10 Mar 10 | Vets are warning dog and puppy owners to make sure their pets are up to date with their vaccinations as a wave of deadly parvovirus spreads through the eastern states.
10 Mar 10 | Steven Kilby is one of the newest members to join the Nyngan Public School staff this year.
03 Mar 10 | A public meeting was held at the Town Hall on March 16 1960, chaired by the mayor, Mr M Wren, some 50 people attended.
03 Mar 10 | International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated on the 8th of March across the world. IWD is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women in the past, present and future.
24 Feb 10 | The weekend of February 20 and 21, saw the Nyngan unit play host to five SES units, Dubbo, Gilgandra,
24 Feb 10 | The library together with the Nyngan Country Women’s Association and also sponsored by the Nyngan Lions Club and the Western Studio of Art parent’s association is again running the Book Link Reading Program.
24 Feb 10 | Nyngan High School principal Chad Bliss has set a challenge for the Nyngan community to support the Leukaemia foundation in the 2010 “Worlds Greatest Shave”.
24 Feb 10 | In a world first, two dogs graduated today from a NSW Juvenile Justice Centre after a year’s worth of assistance dog training by detainees, juvenile justice minister Graham West said.
24 Feb 10 | Katie Ryan commenced her first year of teaching at St Joseph’s School, Nyngan in 2010 after gaining her Bachelor of Education at Charles Sturt University, Dubbo.
24 Feb 10 | Last weekend Nelson Salter travelled to Sydney to compete at the NSW Athletics Junior and Youth Championships at Sydney Olympic Park Athletics Centre.
He competed in 100 metre, 200 metre and long jump.
17 Feb 10 | With locusts again becoming active in the region, the Central West Livestock Health and Pest Authority is asking landholders to continue surveillance and report all plague locust activity on their properties.
17 Feb 10 | Some better news for our hospital with having a doctor present.
17 Feb 10 | We are members of the Ulysses Club, an organisation for over 40s with a common interest in motorcycles.
Ride for Life is all about raising awareness for the Red Cross Blood Bank and St John Ambulance Service as this is the year of the blood donor.
17 Feb 10 | The NSW Farmers’ Association says tertiary students only have a couple of weeks to get their applications in for the 2010 Tertiary Scholarship program.
17 Feb 10 | Illegal anglers have been warned to stop trapping and catching fish in restricted fishways in the Macquarie River at Warren, as recent rainfall triggers movement and breeding for a number of native species.
17 Feb 10 | It has been a hectic start to the year for the new principal at Nyngan Public School, Mrs Glynis Lugnan, who only found out about her appointment to Nyngan a week before Christmas.
10 Feb 10 | More than 3000 concerned landholders converged on Canberra on Tuesday February 2 to participate in the Tower of Hope Rally in support of the issues Peter Spencer has raised concerning lost property rights.
The organisation of the event and the provision of transport by the NSW Farmers’ Association was fantastic.