30 Apr 09 | IN FINE conditions on Anzac Day a good field of 22 golfers contested the Avon Valley Nissan Monthly Mug.
30 Apr 09 | THE Northam Bowling Club recently held its championships for singles and triples.
30 Apr 09 | THE Railways Bombers came away with a strong win from their first game of the season which was a derby with cross-town rivals Federals.
30 Apr 09 | Northam Shire coun cillor Ray head is working to have council’s decision to deny the Spencers Brook quarry an extension to its blasting schedule rescinded.
30 Apr 09 | YORK farmer and businessman Tony Boyle has been appointed to the board of the Wheatbelt Development Commission.
30 Apr 09 | AVON Valley Solar Co-operative is up and running.
30 Apr 09 | THERE was a clutch of clergy in St John’s Anglican Church, Northam last Tuesday evening when the Venerable Peter Bourne was commissioned as the rector of the Ministering Districts of Northam and Toodyay-Goomalling and as Archdeacon of Avon.
30 Apr 09 | A FORMER Northam man Gavin Roediger served with 2 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment in Iraq.
He delivered the Anzac Day address in Northam on Saturday.
30 Apr 09 | NORTHAM’S main Anzac Day service was again well supported by the community.
23 Apr 09 | WITH very little rain over the previous weeks it was thought “opening day” would be on a dry looking course with plenty of run.
23 Apr 09 | COLIN Robinson was recognised by the Northam Basketball Association for his many years of service at the juniors grand final held on Tuesday, April 7.
23 Apr 09 | UNDER the co-ordination of president Tim Powell, many Northam Lawn Tennis Club members worked up a sweat on the weekend.
23 Apr 09 | THE Northam Bowling Club was abuzz with excitement last Wednesday and Thursday when women from all over the district came for the annual two-day classic.
23 Apr 09 | FOOTBALL is back in full swing for 2009 and the kick-off game at Forrest Oval in York on Sunday was a disappointing encounter for the home side.
23 Apr 09 | MANAGING director of Reedy Lagoon Corporation Limited Geoff Fethers said laboratory results indicate a highquality iron concentrate (at 69 per cent iron) can
be produced from the Bullamine project near Northam.
23 Apr 09 | THE Northam Medi KO’s once again hit the track to help the fight against cancer in the Relay for Life on March 28 and 29.
23 Apr 09 | VISITORS to Bardeen homestead, Irishtown – midway between Northam and Toodyay – could be forgiven for thinking they had stumbled on to the set of a period drama production.
23 Apr 09 | “DRIVING 32 kilometres at night without seeing a car behind me or approaching me is an incredible experience for an Englishman.”
23 Apr 09 | SEVEN local jobs could be lost as the result of a decision by the Shire of Northam at its meeting last Wednesday not to extend the blasting schedule at the Spencers Brook Quarry.
23 Apr 09 | WHILE rumours are circulating in Northam that the transnational fast food chain McDonald’s is no longer coming to Northam, the company is conducting soil tests on the proposed site to help structural engineers plan the new building.