21 Dec 04 | EACH festive season it just gets bigger and better and this year Peter Kippax had to hire a cherry picker to add a 100-metre rope light to a palm tree.
21 Dec 04 | WITH the Christmas spirit in the air popular members, Brian Williams and Ian Scarr sponsored the members Christmas bowls with all 42 participating bowlers receiving a prize.
21 Dec 04 | AFTER their batsman amassed a respectable total of 178, the Wingham bowling attack tore through the Leagues batting line up like a hot knife through butter to secure a comfortable victory and cement their team in the number one position heading into the Christmas break.
21 Dec 04 | CRICKET is one of the oldest organised sports in the Manning Valley, with the earliest recorded games in the mid-nineteenth century.
21 Dec 04 | WINGHAM school girl Hannah Blanch has taken
seriously ill and is currently undergoing chemotherapy.
21 Dec 04 | THE 20th annual Salvation Army Motorcycle Toy and Tucker Run 2004 has been deemed the best yet.
21 Dec 04 | WINGHAM NSW Fire Brigade is on the look out for four new retained firefighters.
21 Dec 04 | WINGHAM High School has been ranked the top school in the district following the outstanding performance of its students in the HSC.
14 Dec 04 | WITH memories of last year's stormy event organisers of this year's Wingham Chamber of Commerce Christmas Carnival were willing the clouds away - and it worked.
14 Dec 04 | IN the quarter finals of the Darrell Lea Chocolates men's fours championship, Bob Landon (subbing for Brian Gorman), Milton Sky, Colin Watson and Terry Simmons carried too many guns for Craig Lewis, Peter Brown, Mick Lewis and Alan Warby running out winners at 22-12.
14 Dec 04 | THE last ride of the year for the Taree and District Riding for the Disabled association was held at the Wingham Showground on the weekend.
14 Dec 04 | INDICATIONS are Julene Westwater, partner of late mayor Mick Tuck, will fill the vacancy on Greater Taree City Council.
14 Dec 04 | "IF you don't believe in Australia then it doesn't exist and this belief is typified on Australia Day by communities who identify those citizens who have made an outstanding contribution."
14 Dec 04 | AN application has commenced to have four lots of land along Bull Hill Road in Tinonee rezoned as rural residential blocks.
14 Dec 04 | AFTER a six month sea voyage to a new world during which almost 24 emigrants died and after serving generations of Scottish pioneers in their mother tongue the McLeod family Bible has finally come to rest at the Wingham Museum.
14 Dec 04 | A WAVE aquarium cabinet designed by Wingham's Ashlee Blanch is among the outstanding 2004 HSC Design and Technology works on exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum.
07 Dec 04 | WINGHAM A - grade cricket team recorded their sixth win on the trot when disposing of Forster at the Cedar Party Reserve on Saturday putting them at the top of the points table.
07 Dec 04 | FIRST round matches in the Darrell Lea Chocolates championship fours were completed on Saturday with two very close matches.
07 Dec 04 | FROM the very early days of European settlement to the present time timber has been a significant industry in our district.
07 Dec 04 | THE bizarre weather continued last week with temperatures soaring above 40c during the day on Wednesday followed by wild wind storms in the evening causing traffic chaos and blackouts around the region.
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