Floriade in Canberra has become a very well-established horticultural event in our gardening calendar. I notice that Martins are already advertising bus trips available for this years’ event. It will run from 15 September – 16 October. A feature of this years’ garden festival will be a Second World War Victory Garden, created by the [...]
TIM Fischer is well known as a passionate advocate for rail as a means of travel and transporting heavy goods. The former deputy Prime Minister was firmly astride his hobby horse when releasing his latest writing on the subject in Albury this week. While it is easy to dismiss this enthusiasm for rail as Tim’s [...]
National Missing Persons Week is an annual event to highlight cases of missing persons . This year the emphasis will be on the impact of missing persons on family, friends and the community. The aim of the week is to raise awareness of the issues and impacts associated with missing people. Every year in NSW [...]
MOVIE: Bad Teacher (M) DURATION: 92 minutes DESPITE the bad reviews, new comedy Bad Teacher is actually quite funny. Staring Cameron Diaz as a selfish and conniving teacher intent on finding a rich man she can mooch off, the film is full of dry humour and un-jokes. The film opens with Diaz, playing the role [...]
THE Australian Ballet’s regional touring arm, The Dancer’s Company, is heading to Albury for two performances of Don Quixote. 31 talented young performers will light up the Albury Entertainment Centre tonight (Friday, July 29) and tomorrow night. The shows give the up-and-coming dancers a chance to perform in regional venues across Tasmania, Victoria, NSW and [...]
FORMER Australian Crawl front-man James Reyne is keen to hit the SS&A stage tonight (Friday, July 29) after his planned performance at the venue two months ago was cancelled. In a health scare which he admits “freaked him out a bit”, the 54-year-old lost his voice during a live show, forcing him to abandon the [...]
IN an impressive display Lavington dashed my hopes of taking a clean sweep in the O&M tipping last week. Nothing unusual there and the same could be said for the rest of the round. The Panthers were out to an early lead over Wangaratta and began to kick on in the second term. By the [...]
HOCKEY Albury Wodonga’s blue round was held last week in conjunction with the Australian Drug Foundation’s Build Your Game, Good Mental Health program and Beyond Blue and has been hailed as a success by hockey operations manager, Dennis Martin. The club has been involved in the Good Sports program to help promote a healthy lifestyle [...]
CADEL fever has hit the country and the Border is not immune to its touch. After years of hard work Cadel Evans finally cracked the big one to take the Tour de France victory and the fall-out in Australia stands to be huge. Local cycling identity, Steve Kilpatrick proudly displays congratulations in his shop window [...]
THE Border needs a new task force to investigate rail problems and look into high-speed rail, according to former Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer. Speaking at launch of his new book at Albury Station this week, the train enthusiast said the public had been “rubbed raw” by failures on tracks between Albury and Melbourne. “I [...]