Local News
1:53 PM AEDT | IT has been five years in the making and three years since cameras rolled in Tenterfield, but 'Unearthed' will finally have its world premiere at the School of Arts cinema on March 20.
1:46 PM AEDT | TENTERFIELD ratepayers will cover all the costs of fluoridating the town’s water supply, despite a long and vocal history in objection to the chemical’s addition to local water.
1:43 PM AEDT | Motorists and the government often find themselves at loggerheads over highway speeds, but it is not too often that motorists think the speed limit is set too high while the government does not.
1:38 PM AEDT | As the days count down to the Leukaemia
Foundation's World's Greatest Shave on
Saturday night at the Tenterfield Tavern, few are more familiar with the foundation's work than cancer survivor Paul Mills.
Donna Ward reports...
1:33 PM AEDT | Local participants in the World's Greatest Shave say the event will still go ahead as planned this weekend.
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1:29 PM AEDT | Funds raised at the 2009 Tenterfield Rotary Bavarian Beerfest have been put to good use in areas devastated by last year’s Victorian bushfires.
1:27 PM AEDT | Tenterfield-born artist and author Bronwyn Bancroft has been awarded the prestigious Dromkeen Medal for her contribution to children’s literature.
1:24 PM AEDT | The NSW Seniors Citizens’ Week motto ‘live life’ inspired local organisers when they were putting together this year’s schedule.
1:22 PM AEDT | There was much excitement in the newly established Moombahlene Gallery in Rouse Street last week with the first sale of an Art Trail artwork.
09 Mar 10 | The Tenterfield Star and the Tenterfield community were saddened to hear the news last week that long-time editor of the newspaper Lisa Finnerty died on Thursday evening following a battle with leukaemia. Lisa first started with the Star more than 20 years ago. Geoff Hovey was the proprietor of the Star between 1983 and 1993 and here he reflects on his memories of the young reporter he hired who went on to become editor of the newspaper.
03 Mar 10 | The Uniting Church Hall was a blaze of colour on Saturday afternoon when the Tenterfield Horticultural Society Inc. held their inaugural Dahlia Show.
03 Mar 10 | Haiti has received thousands of shelter boxes through Rotary International since the deadly Port-au-Price earthquake hit the country in January, including one bought with funds raised at Tenterfield.
03 Mar 10 | The rescue efforts made by members of the Tenterfield Fire Brigade during last year’s Coffs Harbour floods have been recognised by the highest ranked members of the New South Wales Fire Brigades.
03 Mar 10 | The people and township of Deepwater have come a long way in the last six months: business is growing, travellers are stopping and new homes are being built.
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Comments (2) | Chinese, Cletic history merge
03 Mar 10 | Deepwater will celebrate its Chinese and Celtic roots next weekend with the Northern Tablelands Irish Association’s inaugural ‘Celtic and Chinese Tin Miners Review’ bush poetry competition.
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03 Mar 10 | The excavator was there, the bobcat has come and gone, the concrete is in and the Canterbury clay target thrower is here to stay: according to the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia Tenterfield Branch, local shooters should be celebrating.
03 Mar 10 | When Kellie McCotter takes a razor to the hair of Imogen Riley in 10 days time, she may well recall six years ago when it was her own hair on the line.
03 Mar 10 | The Northern Tablelands Rural Fire Service has put out the call for volunteers in the Tenterfield shire to join locals like Ruth Offer and Helen Smith who are already helping the service and spreading the message that you may be surprised in the difference you can make. ERIC PARNIS reports...
03 Mar 10 | Country Fresh, the Armidale-based owner of Wallangarra’s Southern Queensland Exporters, has said its sale to a South Australian company will not affect jobs at the Queensland abattoir.
03 Mar 10 | Tenterfield Lion Ken Poulsen has been awarded with the Lions International's highest honour, the Melvin Jones Fellow, for more than 32 years of dedication and service.