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Around the grounds...

Around the grounds...

Senior Girl Champion Ella Mitton with runner up Daisy McMahon.

Diving straight into it: Grenfell Public School's 2020 swimming carnival

Lawson House Captains Vienna Fysh and Max Reid (centre) with vice captains Amelia Southwell-McCartney and Harry Robinson.

Grenfell Public names 2020 house captains

Around the grounds...

Around the grounds...

Riley Cartwright contributed 15 runs to the Grenfell White total in the side's loss to Bowling Club last Saturday.

White fail to defend 149 target

Cooper Biddle Cooper Biddle belted 54 off 23 balls and retired in Saturday's junior clash against Cowra. Photo Grenfell cricket Facebook.

Around the grounds...

Australia's longest-running regional food festival, Orange FOOD Week, is now in its 29th year.

Orange, the hidden land of milk, honey and FOOD Week

Linda Moon

Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon. Picture: Shutterstock

How to make the most of three days in Ho Chi Minh City

Hannah Warren

Brisbane, and the Story Bridge, is spectacular at night.

Brisbane's transformation to Queensland capital of cool

Sheriden Rhodes

Summer Reading Bingo Challenge: Ryan family. Kids are Charlie, Heidi and Jack. Parents are James and Katie.

Join friends of Grenfell library this month

Erica Kearnes

Coming up: Wednesday, February 19 Baby Bounce at 10.30am and Storytime at 11am. Tuesday, February 25 Friends of Grenfell Library (FOGL) Monthly meeting 6.45pm for a 7pm start in Library. Everyone is welcome.

Bounce into baby book time fun

Erica Kearnes

COMPETITION: The event has grown significantly in recent years. Here are spectators in the yards during judging. Photo: Submitted

WHAT'S ONEwes to bust the dust during Parkes Show Society's annual competition

Summer Reading Bingo Challenge: Ryan family. Kids are Charlie, Heidi and Jack. Parents are James and Katie.

Join friends of Grenfell library this month

Grenfell 1947-48 captain Harry Anderson proudly displays the coveted Grinsted Cup. Photograph from The Grinsted Cup, A Cricket Tradition.

Locals in cricket anniversary challenge

Axl Delandro and Jesse Thompson-Jones are looking forward to Rock Till It Rains in Greenethorpe. Photo courtesy of the band.

Greenethorpe will rock till it rains

Have a break: This summer explore more of our vast continent without worrying about network coverage. With Pennytel you can get 98.8 per cent coverage across Australia's populated areas.

Keeping covered this summer

Could this be the perfect Christmas present?

Could this be the perfect Christmas present?

Emma Brown

Leadership qualities: Kate Venables was one of the first managers in Australia to receive Chartered Manager accreditation.

The making of a leader

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Have a break: This summer explore more of our vast continent without worrying about network coverage. With Pennytel you can get 98.8 per cent coverage across Australia's populated areas.

Keeping covered this summer

The time leading up to Christmas is rife with offers too good to resist. So make the most of them early, like this Nokia phone offer from Pennytel, which can help you prepare for the good times ahead and even finish your shopping.

'Tis the way to stay in touch this Christmas

HAND UP: Collaborative AI, in which people and AI team up, will change the way we work.

Collaborate: AI can be your friend

Ben Jackson

DREAM AWAY: The most expensive homes sold during 2019 in photos.

PHOTOSSee photos of the most expensive real estate sales of 2019

Nadine Morton

Residential property listings portal realestateview.com.au competes with Domain, which is majority owned by Nine Entertainment Co, and realestate.com.au, which is controlled by News Corp.

Catalano digital deal delivers property with a view

Smart technology: Today Acquire places property ads on news websites and social media outlets in view of people who are not actively looking to buy.

ACM pilots new digital platform to find the right buyer for your home

Summer Reading Bingo Challenge: Ryan family. Kids are Charlie, Heidi and Jack. Parents are James and Katie.

Join friends of Grenfell library this month

Erica Kearnes

PLANTING IDEAS: Celebrity gardener Costa Georgiadis encourages Camdenville Public School students to see what goes on a ground level when planting fire retardant native shrubs.

Costa sows hope after fires

Robyn Ainsworth

Grenfell Public students waiting outside the Lyric Theatre. Photos supplied.

Grenfell Public students trek to see Shrek

Summer Reading Bingo Challenge: Ryan family. Kids are Charlie, Heidi and Jack. Parents are James and Katie.

Join friends of Grenfell library this month

Happy Birthday: Joan Forfar enjoying her 90th birthday celebrations. Photo: Contributed.

A sweet spot for a park stop

Deidre Carroll

Coming up: Wednesday, February 19 Baby Bounce at 10.30am and Storytime at 11am. Tuesday, February 25 Friends of Grenfell Library (FOGL) Monthly meeting 6.45pm for a 7pm start in Library. Everyone is welcome.

Bounce into baby book time fun

Erica Kearnes

Senior Girl Champion Ella Mitton with runner up Daisy McMahon.

Diving straight into it: Grenfell Public School's 2020 swimming carnival

A bird's-eye-view of the Crimson Chat with Jenn Graham | Video

A bird's-eye-view of the Crimson Chat with Jenn Graham | Video

STUNNING: Follow the Midnight Sun through the Arctic Circle on a Viking Cruise from London to Bergen in Norway.

Enter now: win a Scandinavian cruise with Viking

Peter Sugar describes a torrent of water, logs and fire debris sounding like a tsunami as it swept into Nerrigundah. Photo: Adam McLean

Trail of tears as fire-scarred South Coast mops up after the flood

Pot luck: Ray Hollingsworth with the ring he found at Gateway Plaza. Picture: Anthony Brady

Juliette, a builder's found your ring, but where's Romeo?

Kyra Gillespie

Superb fairy-wren populations in Canberra are declining. Picture: Simon Bennett

Why global warming is such a turn-off for Canberra's favourite bird

Steve Evans

Clare and Lyn Hedger, from Alfredton, are on board the Diamond Princess which is quarantined in Yokohama Harbour after a coronavirus outbreak. Picture: Clare Hedger

Mum, daughter in windowless lockdown on coronavirus cruise ship

Greg Gliddon

A bird's-eye-view of the Swamp Wallaby with Jenn Graham | Video

A bird's-eye-view of the Swamp Wallaby with Jenn Graham | Video

Jenn Graham

SURPRISE: The plant-based meat patties I tried didn't taste like real steak or lamb - but neither do actual meat patties.

OPINIONPlant-based meat trend's bit hard to swallow

Father Brendan Lee

Cap your drinks, follow the new alcohol guidelines

OPINIONCap your drinks, follow the new alcohol guidelines

Dr Jason (Heng) Jiang

HOURS IN THE DAY: Cloning hasn't been mainstreamed yet, making coming up with new ideas somewhat of a curse.

OPINIONI can't do everything - as much as I would like

Zoë Wundenberg

TURNING THE PAGE: Rosie Craven is living with early stage Alzheimer's but is now able to enjoy hobbies such as reading again thanks to a new clinical trial.

Everything is Rosie thanks to new Alzheimer's drug trial

Rowan Cowley

LADY OF THE HOUSE: Miriam Margolyes as Aunt Prudence in Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears, in cinemas nationally from February 27.

Dear Prudence comes out to play for unstoppable Miriam

Geraldine Cardozo

NSW Seniors Festival: so much to celebrate

NSW Seniors Festival: so much to celebrate

The ATSB and CASA will investigate a mid-air collision between two planes that killed four people.

Four dead in mid-air Victorian plane crash

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Advocates are campaigning for the beatification and canonisation of Sydney woman Eileen O'Connor.

Cause picks up for next Australian saint

32m ago

Former NSW minister and convicted pedophile Milton Orkopoulos faces new charges of breaching parole.

Fresh charges for ex-Labor MP Orkopoulos

36m ago

Farmers and other community members have protested the proposed Inland Rail route across the Condamine River floodplain.

Desperate farmers protest inland rail

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A young platypus trying to establish its own territory on the Gold Coast has recovered from illness.

Burrow hunt goes wrong for young platypus

Sonia Kohlbacher
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Three children and a man have died and a woman was critically injured in a car fire in Brisbane.

Children, man killed in Brisbane car fire

Nicholas McElroy
1hr ago

NSW Police have taken out an AVO against James Lafferty, who had been stalking singer Delta Goodrem.

Stalker ordered to stay away from Goodrem

Steve Zemek
1hr ago

About 200 Australians from the Diamond Princess cruise ship are set to be evacuated to Darwin.

Aussies on virus-hit ship prepare to leave

Matt Coughlan and Rebecca Gredley
1hr ago

Harold, Phillip and MegCrouch of Karu Pastoral Pty Ltd, Milby, Condobolin, won both the Don Brown and the CW zone championship last year.

CW ewe comp celebrates 21st

Mark Griggs
1hr ago

With just 567 dairy farmers in NSW, the state's fresh milk and dairy advocate Ian Zandstra says getting farmers business fit was a key to future success.

Getting dairy farmers business fit for future

Samantha Townsend
2hrs ago

Dust being whipped up on the Riverina this month was quite a contrast to the thunderstorms experienced in some regions on Tuesday.

Wild night of thunderstorms pound NSW

BEN DOMENSINO, Weatherzone

SUM TOTAL: A simple equation will give an indication of how long assets will last.

Simple rule of thumb may answer longevity question

Eco-friendly backyard tips

Eco-friendly backyard tips

HELLO CHOOK: Curious and intelligent, chickens are a great addition to the backyard.

Feeling clucky?? Here's how to be a good egg in a hen's eyes

RSPCA