Local News
19 Feb 10 | Trevor Hoare was a very worthy winner of the Orroroo/Carrieton District Council Citizen of the Year, as announced at the Australia Day breakfast held in the Lions’ Park, Orroroo.
19 Feb 10 | A voluntary netting ban that some Port Broughton and Fisherman’s Bay residents are hoping to become more a more permanent one is not to everyone’s liking.
19 Feb 10 | Come and see some local talent in free gala events in Port Augusta
19 Feb 10 | Jamestown Comm-unity School has started the 2010 school year with five new teachers.
19 Feb 10 |
Lucy Mercer is one of the community’s greatest achievers in academia and sports, being described as a confident young lady with a positive, helpful attitude.
19 Feb 10 |
The eyes of the Nation are currently on Pheasant Wood at Fromelles, France, where unidentified Australian soldiers killed in the 1916 battle are being re-interred, after their mass grave was discovered in 2008.
19 Feb 10 | Booleroo welcomes three new Australians....
04 Feb 10 | One of the added, unexpected, but pleasant bonuses of Peterborough’s Australia Day breakfast was the decision of Hallett resident, Heather McDonald, to become an Australian Citizen in front of a crowd exceeding 160 people.
04 Feb 10 |
A huge number of people turned up to this year’s Australia Day celebration at the Quorn pool.
04 Feb 10 | Over 160 people attended the Australia Day Breakfast at the Peterborough Town Hall, hosted by the District Council of Peterborough, in conjunction with the local Rotary and Lions Clubs.
04 Feb 10 |
A large group of Jamestown residents gathered in Memorial Park to celebrate Australia Day last week.
04 Feb 10 | When Brinkworth lad Angus Hahn woke in his dad’s van recently on a fishing trip, he was surprised to find no sign of his father.
04 Feb 10 | The community of Laura will soon have access to their very own skate park, after the approval of two recent grant applications.
28 Jan 10 | Not only the were the Year 12 students of 2009 from Booleroo Centre District School anxiously awaiting final results and offers from universities, TAFE and employers during the school holidays, their teachers were, too.
28 Jan 10 | The homestead of local hero Sir Hubert Wilkins has recently been resorted as a tourist attraction in Mt Bryan East.
28 Jan 10 | John Hector of Jamestown was awarded an Order of Australia Medal on Australia Day, recognised for his “service to veterans and their families through the Returned and Services League (RSL) of Australia, and to the community.”
28 Jan 10 | South Australia’s Opposition Leader, Isobel Redmond, made a low-key visit to Peterborough last week.
28 Jan 10 | Kevin Jaeschke has been awarded an Order of Australia Medal for “services to soil conservation and the environment, and to the community”.
28 Jan 10 | Teenager Ryan Heness has recently taken off from his home-town of Peterborough for an exchange program based in Germany.
10 Dec 09 |
The Melrose Hospital Auxiliary held their annual
general meeting on November 20, where Julie Arthur, Booleroo Health Service EO/DON, thanked the
auxiliary for their continued support.