Local News
11 Mar 10 | GARY Blake was born in Kalgoorlie in 1948 and grew up as the eldest twin son in a family of 10 children.
11 Mar 10 | STUDENTS at Central Midlands Senior High School were excited to receive donations of a range of paints and small fittings from Home Hardware.
11 Mar 10 | EMILY Brown started her 30-month apprenticeship at the Hair Shoppe in February, but before she could start she completed a two-year course in just one year through TAFE Polytechnic West.
11 Mar 10 | IT WAS picnic time for the teddy bears at Moora Playgroup last Thursday.
11 Mar 10 | MOORA Police received a technology upgrade of its vehicles this week.
11 Mar 10 | WHAT started as a client night function for Landmark Operations in New Norcia last year led to the organisation sponsoring the Abbot Placid Spearritt Memorial Scholarship.
04 Mar 10 | A MOORA woman received a shock early last Sunday evening when police knocked on the door of her McPherson Street home.
04 Mar 10 | CENTRAL Midlands Senior High School hospitality students travelled to Dandaragan Primary School to cater for a recent afternoon tea function for staff and parents following a school assembly.
04 Mar 10 | THE Shire in conjunction with local schools will be doing their bit for Clean Up Australia Day, which will be held locally on Wednesday, March 10.
04 Mar 10 | THE Stack-Cooper Street Reserve was officially opened earlier this month thanks to volunteers who spent about 230 hours restoring the site.
04 Mar 10 | CHERYL Dimmack is busy familiarising herself with what is happening in the community after starting her position as community development officer for the Shire of Wongan Ballidu last week.
04 Mar 10 | RITA Vaughan has lived her 90 years of life to the full.
25 Feb 10 | BRIAN “Trippy” Tripp received an international award recently for his strong and everlasting commitment to St John Ambulance of Australia at his local Moora branch.
25 Feb 10 | MOORA police said they were alarmed at reports a truck driver overtook a school bus on double lines up a hill on the Great Northern Highway on Wednesday, February 17.
25 Feb 10 | WELL-known Moora couple Ron and Val Manning are celebrating their golden anniversary after 50 years of marriage.
25 Feb 10 | IN MOST unusual circumstances, the planned wedding of their dreams in Bali became the second wedding in a week for Moora couple Jaclyn Mackie and John Workman.
25 Feb 10 | DANDARAGAN Shire’s 2010 Citizen of the Year and Young Citizen of the Year awards have both been won by Jurien Bay residents.
25 Feb 10 | WONGAN Hills farmer and businesswoman Sue Middleton has won this year’s Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) Rural Woman of the Year award with her research project into commercial biogas.
18 Feb 10 | WONGAN Hills District High School welcomes three new staff members for the commencement of the 2010 school year.
18 Feb 10 | THE Dandaragan Shire is encouraging young people to be better leaders and citizens with up to $300 available to each primary school in the district to send students to a National Young Leaders Conference in March.