The St Patrick’s Year 10 students bid a sad farewell to the school last week at their Graduation Mass on Thursday evening, but they were certainly buoyed by the excellent results achieved in this year’s School Certificate exams.

There…

The final major competition for the year was played at the Cooma Golf Club on Sunday, with mild weather for golf with little to no wind conditions were great for a change.

The team of David Crawford, Max Turner, Tim Jordan and Clare…

Nimmitabel Public School Principal Jo-Anne Jones will be retiring next year after 33 years in education and 20 years at Nimmitabel Public.

Ms Jones first came to the area in the 1970s after teaching in Sydney before getting a transfer to…

The 2008 HSC results were released on Wednesday last week, with the Universities Admission Index (UAI) released the day after, leaving Monaro High School students either disappointed or pleasantly surprised.

The Monaro Post unearthed some…

Cooma Rural Lands Protection Board held its last meeting last Friday, marking the end of a 106-year history.

Cooma board, like others in the state, has been incoprorated into a larger board, reducing the numbers from 47 to 14.

Cooma will…

David Gaukroger shot one of the best rounds of the year on Saturday in the extremely bad weather conditions to win the Medal of Medals Play Off with a great round of 69 net, a clear three strokes winner from his nearest rival on 72.…

Cooma, Snowy River and Bombala residents are invited to celebrate 100 years of rugby league in Australia with the arrival of ‘League of Legends’, a travelling banner display from the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.

The ‘League…

Last Sunday saw Cooma Alpine Tourers, the local motorcycle club, hold their 19th annual Toy Run to provide toys to the Salvation Army Christmas Appeal.

“We are disappointed the Toy Run was not on the Rotary Markets day this year,”…

TAFE NSW – Illawarra Institute’s Cooma Campus was announced as the winner of the ‘Judges Award’ at the 2008 Canberra and Capital Region Tourism Awards.

The Award was presented to David Lindsay, Head Teacher of Tourism and Hospitality…

The Bombala Anglican community celebrated two great events in one service on Sunday, when baby Raymond Perkins was baptised and Grace Eppelston celebrated her 100th birthday.

‘Amazing Grace’ as she has become known over the years, still…

Cooma Race Club has honured long-serving supporter and Life Member Frank Boller, who died last…

Races

Miss Canberra, Gangleri win cups

More than 4500 people attended Ti Tree Racecourse, Cooma last Saturday to see Miss Canberra and Gangleri win the Sundowners and Cooma Cups respectively.

Once again, Ti Tree was…

The Cooma-Ex Services Club, as well as the rest of the community, said a huge thank you to the Snowy Hydro Southcare Helicopter last Friday morning when they presented them with a $5000 cheque of gratitude.

Several major sponsors of the…

The Country Rugby League South Coast Academy representative side trained in Cooma on Saturday morning.

Coach Gary Stevenson, trainer Leon Russell and Canberra Raiders Damien Kennedy ran the boys through fitness and various drills in a…

Record crowds flocked to the Snowy River Festival at Dalgety on the weekend, November 14-16, to enjoy three days of snowy river heritage and great bush festival entertainment.

Stockman and women travelled from all corners of the country…

Coralie Wood OAM ‘Publicist Extraordinaire’ visited Nimmitabel, last weekend to sit for artist Ian Henderson’s entry for the 2009 ‘Archibald Portrait Prize’ that is to be submitted to the Art Gallery of New South Wales early next year.…

Plans by Cooma-Monaro Shire Council and the Roads Traffic Authority to close part of Sharp Street on Saturday and Sunday, plus the Vale and Massie Streets intersection, have angered shopkeepers in the locality.

The carparks will be closed…

Local butchers on the Monaro last Saturday joined an appeal launched to assist the O’Neill family of Kalaru.

Shane O’Neill, a Bega butcher and his two young sons, Riley and Travis died at Tathra Wharf two weeks ago.

A Sydney butcher…

Target Country Cooma will celebrate its silver anniversary this month marking 25 years in the Cooma community.

The loyal team at Target Country Cooma still includes original member and store manager Janel Roberson who has been with the…

Cooma Unlimited will form a taskforce to devise a suitable welcome for the head of Aveo Aviation when he visits Cooma in January.

At a special meeting on Thursday afternoon, Cooma Unlimited, representatives of Cooma-Monaro Shire Council,…

Adaminaby Jockey’s Club’s annual race meeting held last Saturday had its highs and lows.

The highs were the community support and that of owners and trainers, plus the presence of rain.

The low was that the meeting had to be abandoned…

The Minister for Primary Industries Ian Macdonald has agreed to delay the process of closing the Gaden Hatchery in Jindabyne, following discussions with Member for Monaro Steve Whan and key stakeholders today.

“Today’s meeting was very…

A new president was voted in at the recent AGM of the Cooma Rugby Union Football Club.

Current player, Paul Wadland will lead the Club into 2009. Originally from Cronulla, Paul began playing rugby when he was 11 years old at Newington…

Fourteen year-old Coma girl Telar Williams has won Reserve Champion in Pryde’s Easifeed Supreme Hack of Zone three on her galloway, Mayflower Bumblebee.

She then took out Supreme Champion of the Rider of the Show on her friend’s hack…

The current global financial crisis has had an adverse effect on the economy nationwide and subsequently small businesses are suffering. The Cooma Chamber of Commerce has recently taken a proactive step to deal with this crisis through the…