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Euchre tournaments to pipe room to wandering minstrel

EUCHRE: it’s a card game that has helped build many a school playshed, school of arts hall and funded improvements to schools, helped fix church roofs and met all manner of community needs.

Wendy Creighton

11 hours ago

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Our History - An unusual public hall

WHAT do you do if you want to hold a party, a concert, a ball or a dance and there’s no school of arts, no public hall and not even a hall attached to one of the three churches in the township?

Wendy Creighton

11 hours ago

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SENIORS FEATURE - A self-drive tour through our smallest state

OUR brief was to find a self-drive holiday with minimal travel stress, lots to see that’s out of the ordinary, and where accommodation was easy to find along the way.

Wendy Creighton

11 hours ago

Travel

A self-drive tour through our smallest state

OUR brief was to find a self-drive holiday with minimal travel stress, lots to see that’s out of the ordinary, and where accommodation was easy to find along the way.

Wendy Creighton

05 Mar 2025

History

OUR HISTORY - A most singular animal

IN A story reminiscent of ‘Ripley’s Believe It or Not’ collection of the ‘bizarre and wonderful’ our South Ripley has its own special story of wonder.

Wendy Creighton

05 Mar 2025

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The daring-do of a dashing bushranger Part IV

OUR Wild Scotsman or Wild Scotchman was both celebrated and condemned in the newspapers of the time.

Wendy Creighton

28 Feb 2025