Patience has paid off for members of the Uralla SES who have waited three years in shared facilities to finally move into their state-of-the-art depot which was officially opened on Saturday by Member for Northern Tablelands Richard Torbay. Also in attendance were NSW SES Commissioner Murray Kear and Uralla Mayor Isabel Strutt. The building was [...]
The highly successful BackTrack Program, which helps young people at risk and gets them back on track, has been awarded $800,000 over the next four years so that it can expand its service to assist more young people. Independent Member for New England, Tony Windsor, is delighted that the BackTrack program, an initiative of Jobs [...]
The Ambulance Service of NSW are so impressed with their new Air Ambulance Aircraft that they took one of them on a tour of regional New South Wales last Thursday to show off its tremendous capabilities of transporting patients needing complex heart/lung bypass equipment on route to further treatment at hospital. The impressive Beechcraft King [...]
It has now been nine months since the Brindabella Airlines Armidale-Brisbane service took off, re-establishing direct passenger flights to the north. Brindabella Airlines’ Chief Commercial Officer, Fabrice Binet, swapped wings for wheels recently, touring the area and having meetings of importance to the future of the air service. Mr Binet touched base with University and [...]
Local Telstra technician Cameron Ross and his team are busy connecting Armidale residents to Telstra’s services on the National Broadband Network (NBN). Ross, a telecommunic-ations veteran with 31 years’ experience in the industry, has been living and working in Armidale since 1985 where he started work in the Telstra Exchange before moving into the field. [...]
Armidale Fire & Rescue NSW (FRNSW) held a successful Open Day on Saturday, May 5 during Fire Prevention Week from April 28 to May 5. Armidale Fire Station on Barney Street welcomed a large number of members from the Armidale community who took the opportunity to visit the station to meet local fire fighters, tour [...]
Local volunteer fire fighters were amongst 18 recipients who were presented with NSW Rural Fire Service’s (NSW RFS) awards by NSW RFS Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons at the annual St Florian’s Day Ceremony held at NSW RFS headquarters in Sydney last Friday. Receiving The Commissioner’s Certificate of Commendation (Individual) was Senior Deputy Captain Stephen Bishop, Dumaresq [...]
Strong crowds of prospective students and parents from throughout the local region and as far as South Australia and Queensland flocked to the University of New England for its annual Open Days on Friday and Saturday. The main day was on Friday, with an official welcome from UNE Vice-Chancellor Professor Jim Barber and Chancellor, Dr [...]
Staff working in Catholic Education within the Armidale Diocese have been recognised for innovation and dedication to education at the inaugural Spirit of Catholic Education Awards held last Tuesday, coinciding with celebration during NSW Catholic Schools Week. A rigorous nomination process modelled on the Australia Day Awards resulted in the selection of eight award recipients [...]
Close to 200 people turned out for a special coal seam gas forum at the Armidale Town Hall to hear from experts who spoke about the risks to water, health and the environment from coal seam gas mining. “The great turnout for the forum highlights again the wide and growing community opposition to coal seam [...]
