Local News
2:30 PM AWST | NORTHAM Volunteer Fire and Rescue sent a running team to the State Open Championships in Busselton on the March long weekend.
1:45 PM AWST | THE Toodyay and Northam Lions Club are trying an unusual fundraising event with the IGA Shopping Trolley Dash from Toodyay to Northam on Sunday, May 16.
1:43 PM AWST | THE new assistant district officer with the Wheatbelt Police District has spent 21-anda-half years of his career in country WA since joining the force in 1983.
1:38 PM AWST | ANOTHER meeting was held on Wednesday regarding the December 29 bushfires in Toodyay.
1:37 PM AWST | THERE is confusion about what will happen with agricultural education at the Muresk campus of Curtin University.
1:36 PM AWST | NORTHAM footballer Alistair Smith is making waves after his debut performance in the AFL playing for St Kilda.
04 Mar 10 | PORTER Consulting Engineers has confirmed a claim by Gordon Street resident Derek Host that the natural fall of the verge on the western side of the street is away from the road towards the properties.
04 Mar 10 | TWO Northam identities completed the Rottnest Channel Swim on Sunday, February 21.
04 Mar 10 | NORTHAM Police and Citizens Youth Club (PCYC) has a new bus, thanks to a “magnificent community”, according to PCYC coordinator Senior Constable Dave Jezierski.
04 Mar 10 | A PRIVATE investigator is certain he has found the true ignition point of the disastrous Toodyay bushfire which destroyed 38 houses on December 29 – about 450m from where it was generally believed the fire started.
04 Mar 10 | AFTER all the publicity about the Australian Flight Instructor Training School (AFITS) to be set up in Northam, another organisation has been quietly going about its business of training pilots.
25 Feb 10 | A VOLATILE meeting attended by about 150 people in the Toodyay Memorial Hall last Saturday overwhelmingly supported a motion of no confidence in a report by EnergySafety WA.
25 Feb 10 | NEXT month is Rotary Bowel Scan month.
25 Feb 10 | CALINGIRI farmer Gary McGill is one of four district two candidates in the imminent Co-operative Bulk Handling (CBH) director elections.
25 Feb 10 | BUILDING on two successful years of the Northam Business Awards, the inaugural Avon Valley Business Awards will be held on August 20.
25 Feb 10 | NORTHAM couple Roy and Kath Holtfreter celebrated 60 years of marriage on Thursday, February 18.
25 Feb 10 | THE Department of Housing has this week awarded a contract to build 20 new homes in New Street, York, to WA Country Builders of Northam.
18 Feb 10 | THE Brethren group was not represented at last Wednesday’s Shire of Northam forum when its application to build a place of worship in Golf Links Estate was discussed.
18 Feb 10 | WEST Northam Primary School has welcomed four new teachers to the staff who are looking forward to an exciting year.
18 Feb 10 | AVON Tourism’s new booklet Experience the Avon Valley is just hitting the streets.