Local News
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.
18 Feb 10 | TWO Toodyay couples are still traumatised over a violent incident in Fitzgerald Street on Saturday, February 6.
18 Feb 10 | THE suspended principal of a Wheatbelt high school appeared in Northam Magistrates Court on Monday...
18 Feb 10 | THE Northam Race Club elected Gertrude Enright as its new patron at its recent annual general meeting.
11 Feb 10 | AN INFORMATION session for the Caring for Country business plan was held at the Bridgeley Centre in Northam last Thursday.
11 Feb 10 | AUSTRALIAN philanthropist Dick Smith has backed the innovative Living Communities economic development pilot project, to be launched in Goomalling in the next month, with a $20,000 cheque.
11 Feb 10 | A BIG crowd attended the Daryl Braithwaite concert in aid of the Toodyay Bush fire Appeal at the Avon Bridge Hotel on Saturday.