29 Jul 09 | Health services to the Braidwood district may suffer severe cutbacks if the latest budget from Greater Southern Area Health (GSAHS) are approved. The directive from GSAHS asks that 360 hours per fortnight be slashed from the hospital staffing hours, equating to 4 1/5 fulltime jobs.
29 Jul 09 | ‘The Deua: Memoir of a Bed and Breakfast’ by Rachel Lett was launched at A Suitable Book in Bungendore last Thursday.
29 Jul 09 | After a week of golf on the South Coast Braidwood Junior golfer Patrick Martin returned home as the winner of the 72 net in the Under 15 years Plate Division of the Jack Newton Golf Foundation State Age Championships.
29 Jul 09 | The Alcohol Free Zone is soon to be decided by Palerang Council with public submissions set to close on August 10th 2009. This will be the final date that public submissions may be made to the council.
29 Jul 09 | The last game of the regular season for the Braidwood Redbacks had come on Saturday and with it a bus trip to Bombala.
28 Jul 09 | The Braidwood Servicemen’s Club Bears brought the Harman Seadogs game winning streak to a shuddering halt with a crushing 66-0 defeat at H.M.A.S. Harman Oval on Saturday.
28 Jul 09 | The final stages of work on the Main Road 92 upgrade have started, with still no decision on where the road will go from there. The road is one of few accesses from the tablelands to the coast and is a key component of strategies to provide an alternate route through the Kangaroo Valley.
28 Jul 09 | Lynette Hill from Burrier, west of Nowra has been working on the traffic signals on Main Road 92, 5 or 6 days a week for the last two years.
28 Jul 09 | Liberal Bega MP Andrew Constance, Nationals Burrinjuck MP Katrina Hodgkinson, Nationals Duty MLC for Monaro Melinda Pavey and Queanbeyan Based Liberal MLC Mathew Mason-Cox stood together in Queanbeyan on Monday to announce their commitment to work together at the March 2011 State election.
28 Jul 09 | Recently the Canberra Times and ABC 666 reported an elderly lady being bitten by a brown snake near Macs Reef Road. There was immediate media conjecture as to why snakes are up and about during the coldest part of the year - was it climate change!
23 Jul 09 | Braidwood now has another international sportsman. Following the very gruelling Australian championships played last week in Sydney, Jake Holland, son of Vanessa and Mark, was picked from a very talented pool of Australia's best young players.
23 Jul 09 | Last Saturday's 2BBB was won by the internally competitive pairing of Rob and Pat Martin. Patrick has been in great form recently as he was a net runner-up and winner in the Second Division Junior event on the south coast. He tends to work well with his father and their combined total of 46 points was enough to pip Les Hart and Terry Hughes.
23 Jul 09 | The Braidwood Servicemen’s Club Bears consolidated 3rd place on the competition table with a convincing 68-0 defeat of Goulburn’s Gordon Highlanders last Sunday week.
23 Jul 09 | The Braidwood Redbacks took on Milton Platypi on Saturday at the Rec. With it being a game between the two lowest teams on the ladder, both sides had reasons to win.
23 Jul 09 | In recent years the Braidwood Chamber of Commerce has been in the doldrums. Due to a number of local business people being interested in forming a representative group, a forum-style meeting was held last week with the intention of gauging support for reinvigorating the Chamber of Commerce and to allow people to air their ideas for promoting businesses in Braidwood. A diverse range of businesses was represented at the meeting.
23 Jul 09 | The Preschool's Masked Ball held last Saturday night was a fantastic success.
23 Jul 09 | Paul Dann will be relating some of his stories at the Tussock this Saturday, 25 July, 2pm. He has been a free-lance features writer and photographer for various publications since the 1950s.
10 Jul 09 | Ray Coffey of Wallace Street Braidwood was delighted last Tuesday to receive a copy of a new publication outlining the life and contribution to the Braidwood district made by his grandfather Patrick Michael Coffey. The launch was part of Ray's 86th birthday celebrations.
10 Jul 09 | Palerang Council resolved last week to adopt a Charter for the proposed Climate Change Advisory Committee and appointed members.
10 Jul 09 | The annual Historical Society Dinner was held on Friday 3rd July at The Albion Cafe. The dinner was a great success, sold out two weeks ahead. Young Braidwood singer Maddie Anderson entertained the group.
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