Local News
03 Sep 10 | Walcha businessman Noel Hoare was honoured by making the Wall of Fame at the National Road Transport Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Alice Springs last week
03 Sep 10 | The Yarrowitch-Tia CWA branch will host a morning tea for CWA awareness day, next Wednesday from 9am
03 Sep 10 | The Walcha Show Society held its annual general meeting on August 18, with 14 members attending
03 Sep 10 | St Patrick’s Primary School has been named as the national winner for the highest weight collected per student category in the first round of the 2010 MobileMuster Schools Recycling Challenge
03 Sep 10 | The Rotary club of Walcha will hold its annual Bush Poetry night next Saturday at the Walcha Golf Club
03 Sep 10 | This year the biennial Walcha Garden Festival will focus on the lovely gardens in the Niangala area
06 Aug 10 | About 30 people celebrated Christmas in July at the Commercial Hotel last Saturday and raised approxiametley $1400 for an orphange in India
06 Aug 10 | New beef labelling laws will come into effect at the end of the month
06 Aug 10 | The Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service has selected the aircraft that will bring the fleet to four twin-engine helicopters and so mean that, as much as possible, it can respond 24 hours a day to emergency and medical call-outs throughout the regions
06 Aug 10 | The Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) has advised Walcha Council of the availability of $15,000 funding from its Pedestrian Access and Mobility Plan (PAMP) program to assist with the construction of pedestrian access facilities in 2010/11
06 Aug 10 | Walcha Council will re-allocate $80,000 of Road to Recovery (R2R) funding from the replacement of the timber bridge over Eleven Head Creek to seal 700m of Forest Way
06 Aug 10 | About 60 people attended the Christmas in July held by the St Patrick’s School P and F at the Sports Club last Saturday night
09 Jul 10 | Listening to the market; and the willingness to take a chance and learn more about the thing you are naturally interested in, has resulted in a new business celebrating a successful first year of operation in Walcha this week
09 Jul 10 | Collectively the public schools in the Walcha region have been part of a national first in the completion of their Building the Education Revolution grant projects
09 Jul 10 | A workshop to promote the fun and health benefits of making your own cheese was praised by all in attendance at the Walcha Ex Services Club last weekend
09 Jul 10 | The 2010 Walcha Beautification Committee has been finalised and will meet next week for the first time
09 Jul 10 | Two Walcha artists were part of an exhibition that brought together over 65 regional, national and international artists into one of the most appealing natural places in the world
09 Jul 10 | Last month Denis and Judy Ireland of Walcha and Colin, Helen and Lesley Pearce of Tamworth with Member for New England Tony Windsor heard the Minister for Veterans Affairs, Alan Griffin
09 Jul 10 | The Lower Apsley River Landcare Group based near Walcha, has teamed up with researchers to study greenhouse gas emissions and stores in an agricultural landscape