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The Gwydir Community News – July 2021
Enjoy the latest edition of The Gwydir News. View Gwydir Community Newsletter April Edition >> View Gwydir Community Newsletter June Edition >> View Gwydir Community Newsletter July Edition >> https://issuu.com/thegwydirnews/docs/gn_july21_issuu
Living Memorial a labour of love
The Orange tree-lined streets of Bingara are a talking point for visitors, provide a well-loved, beautiful outlook and are ingrained part of the town’s culture, but behind the scenes a lot of work goes on to ensure the living Memorial prospers. For the last couple of years that responsibility...
The Gwydir News April Community Newsletter
The first of The Gwydir News Community newsletters was released last month.  The publication will be delivered to Gwydir Shire residents and is available online. In Editor Kim Miller's  Word from the Desk, she states, "Welcome to the first monthly edition of the Gwydir News. It was a sad occasion to...
Gwydir River Forest School
An opportunity to gather and learn through exploration was the goal of Gwydir River Forest School held on the banks of the Gwydir just outside Bingara recently with the theme, Explore, Play, Camp, investigated by dozens of children. Families from regional areas including Glenn Innes, Inverell and Tamworth were joined...
Deluge impacts entire shire
The largest flooding event to hit the Gwydir in years came as a result of just 24 hours of rainfall but caused serious, wide-spread damage, particularly to the road network. Whilst North West NSW has received steady rainfall so far in 2021, it took just one day of falls,...
Facebook flooded with images of widespread flooding across the Gwydir Shire
Widespread rain across the region has created amazing scenes as rivers and creeks burst their banks. The Gwydir News posted images of the Gwydir in Bingara and invited viewers across the shires to share their images. 2020 started with drought, followed by bush fires, then disease (Covid 19), then Pestilence (mice,...
Bingara & Warialda named as Covid-19 Vaccination Satellite sites
Five major vaccination hubs and 99 regional satellite sites will open progressively across NSW starting from Monday 15 March, as the COVID-19 vaccination rollout stretches across the state. These vaccination hubs and satellite sites will initially focus on frontline healthcare and border workers, and will eventually be followed by a...
NEW $20 MILLION FUND TO HELP DEVELOP & GROW LOCAL EVENTS
LOCAL event organisers can now apply for funding to expand their shows or bring new major sporting, musical or cultural events to town, with Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall encouraging applications for the new $20 million NSW Regional Events Acceleration Fund. Mr Marshall said the program, which opened this week,...
Status update on the Gwydir News
The Gwydir News has gone digital, here's the latest update posted today on their FACEBOOK PAGE >>. A NEW BEGINNING - MONTHLY NEWSPAPER AND DIGITAL NEWS ARE ON THEIR WAY The Gwydir News would like to thank its readers and advertisers for their ongoing support. You will be aware that print media,...
Bingara’s Australia Day Ambassador announced
Former Bingara personality, with a long family history in the district, will return to his hometown as Bingara’s Australia Day Ambassador John Wearne AM was born in Bingara and lived here for much of his life, until relocating to Armidale late in 2018. He has had a lifetime’s experience...