3/10/2008 | Peg Dowling and her sister Betty were put into Burnside Children’s Home in 1934, when Peg was 2½ years old and Betty 3. The girls had no further contact with their family, although both their mother and father lived until 1974.
3/10/2008 | NSW Rural Fire Service Southern Tablelands Zone has revoked the start to the statutory Bush Fire Danger Period (BFDP) in the Yass Valley Local Government area until November 1.
3/10/2008 | Troy Sicily and Joseph Logue do not see eye to eye about the NRL grand final. Supporting Manly and Melbourne respectively, the two fans are each confident of victory on Sunday.
3/10/2008 | NSW Police are pleading with motorists to help record the lowest annual road toll since World War II.
3/10/2008 | First National Real Estate has some helpful advice for the increasing number of parents still providing the roof over the heads of their 25 plus year old children.
3/10/2008 | Snakes were a problem in 1857 and people still need to be aware of the reptiles now that spring is sprung. Unlike the actions of Mr Moore cited above, local visitors and residents are reminded that snakes are now protected.
3/10/2008 | Fifteen local budding film makers have assembled in Yass to create their own short films, which will be showcased at Riverbank Park on November 14.
3/10/2008 | Brian Tozer has been an avid collector of fine art and antiques.
He harnessed his passion for art to work as a valuer for the public service sector in Canberra during the 1970s and 1980s since he was a little boy.
1/10/2008 | Landmark Copeland Medway livestock agent Phil Butt has been selected to represent NSW in the prestigious Mike Nixon Award.
1/10/2008 | The Travelling Tribune ended up in the hands of talented local shooters, Tracey and Glenn Barton, on their tour of Ireland and Scotland recently.
1/10/2008 | Yass Valley Council has extended a life-line to Binalong Golf Club in granting a request for a short term loan of $20,000.
1/10/2008 | Yass High held their Year 12 graduation and induction of Student Leaders and SRC members for 2009 on Friday.
1/10/2008 | Police are warning dog owners living in the Gundaroo area to be extremely vigilant after 10 reported acts of deliberate poisoning.
1/10/2008 | Kristy May Huey was one of many local children who spent the month of May turning thousands of pages for the 2008 MS Readathon.
1/10/2008 | Sir Roden Cutler Charities is the charity that helps other charities, and once again will be honouring Yass Valley citizens with a disability and their carers and families by coming to Yass on Wednesday October 22.
1/10/2008 | A Heritage Impact Statement detailing the removal of the Dutton Street railway lines has been placed on public exhibition.
30/09/2008 | Berinba Public School joined other schools throughout NSW to help the Children’s Cancer Institute of Australia (CCIA) conduct groundbreaking research.
30/09/2008 | On Thursday, Yass businessman Touie Smith Jr was contacted by a journalist from the Sun-Herald about $18, 386.50 owed to him by the Greater Southern Area Health Service for work done on local hospitals.
30/09/2008 | Enid Brooker was born in the county of Durham – noted for its cathedrals, castles and cricketers – in the northern realms of England.
30/09/2008 | Tributes have flown in for prominent Canberra newsreader Peter Leonard, who passed away on Tuesday, aged 66.
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