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Gwenith Rice Trophy winner Nancy Morrow (second from right) with District singles winner Leisa Burton, runner up Maree Grant and Judith Day.

Nancy Morrow has won the Gwenith Rice Trophy

The Western League Tag Challenge will be held in Canowindra on March 15.

Challenge returns

The Canowindra Tigers grades get back on the paddock.

Canowindra Tigers welcome experience of new coaches

Gwenith Rice Trophy winner Nancy Morrow (second from right) with District singles winner Leisa Burton, runner up Maree Grant and Judith Day.

Nancy Morrow has won the Gwenith Rice Trophy

Canowindra's Grinsted Cup team of 1958 (front) W Tue, H Mulligan, Bill O'Connell, Ray Hodge, George Simmons, Terry Kearns (captain) (back) Arthur Sargeant, umpire Alvin Carman, Mick Middleton (Cargo), Gordon Dillon, Ted Middleton (Cargo) and Ron Worboys). Photograph from The Grinsted Cup, A Cricket Tradition.

An incredible century: the central west celebrates the Grinsted Cup

John Grant crashes over for a try while playing for Cowra Magpies in Group 10. Grant has joined the Young Cherrypickers.

Grant joins Pickers

Peter Guthrie

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

'Making money for the town and region' - that's what Balloon Challenge is all about

WHAT'S ON'Making money for the town and region' - that's what Balloon Challenge is all about

Christine Little

POSITIVE OUTCOME: The 2020 Canowindra Balloon Challenge will go ahead in April after a successful meeting to discuss its future.

WHAT'S ONCanowindra International Balloon Challenge lifts off for 2020

Christine Little

Canowindra's Grinsted Cup team of 1958 (front) W Tue, H Mulligan, Bill O'Connell, Ray Hodge, George Simmons, Terry Kearns (captain) (back) Arthur Sargeant, umpire Alvin Carman, Mick Middleton (Cargo), Gordon Dillon, Ted Middleton (Cargo) and Ron Worboys). Photograph from The Grinsted Cup, A Cricket Tradition.

An incredible century: the central west celebrates the Grinsted Cup

'Making money for the town and region' - that's what Balloon Challenge is all about

WHAT'S ON'Making money for the town and region' - that's what Balloon Challenge is all about

Arts OutWests executive director Tracey Callinan

Funding for Canowindra art project

Leila Smith and Scholarship winner Jemma Pokoney.

University scholarship on offer for local girl

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

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

Canowindra's History: Throwback Thursday April 2006

PHOTOSCanowindra's History: Throwback Thursday April 2006

PRECAUTIONS: Wildlife must be handled with care to protect you and them.

How to cope with those close encounters of the wildlife kind

Lyndell Whyte

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

Canowindra's History: Throwback Thursday, March 2006 - Pt 2

PHOTOSCanowindra's History: Throwback Thursday, March 2006 - Pt 2

Relocated.

New spot for Canowindra CWA's recycling bins

Tender and terrifying: this common centipede is curling itself around its young to protect them. Picture: Caleb Cluff.

This centipede is a crawling, caring mother

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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?

Canowindra's History: Throwback Thursday April 2006

PHOTOSCanowindra's History: Throwback Thursday April 2006

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

From left (back row): Claire Neville, Toby Stephens, Audrey Pearce and Charlie Slattery.
Front row: Jack Smyth, Tom Maloney, Hannah Gordon, Nina Cuddy.

New faces and new leaders for Canowindra's schools

YOU DECIDE: A baby throwing a tantrum or a daring and unique political operative? Picture: Gareth Gardner

SATIRE'No joke': Barnaby creates party fever dream

Mark Bode
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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

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

Prison walls: From clockwise top left, the bunk beds in the units; inmates' common rooms; the outside and inside of the honour houses. Photos: Inspector of Custodial Services

Inside the prison walls: sneak peek at life in a New England jail

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Julian Wright is suing his siblings, claiming they duped him out of the family fortune.

Mining titan son testifies in family feud

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Jeff Pope says he didn't leak details of gangland lawyer Nicola Gobbo's double-dealing to media.

Former top cop denies Lawyer X leak claim

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LIFELINE: Rock lobster fisher Callum McCarthy with empty cray pots in Portland, Victoria, after orders for the crustaceans were cancelled. The Victorian Government has since thrown a financial lifeline to lobster fishers, rolling over quotas until next year. Picture: Anthony Brady

IN DEPTH15 billion reasons to be nervous over virus

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Atlassian's Mike Cannon-Brookes is funding an energy collective to install solar and battery setups.

Tech billionaire helping fire-hit towns

Katina Curtis and Finbar O'Mallon
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Tender and terrifying: this common centipede is curling itself around its young to protect them. Picture: Caleb Cluff.

This centipede is a crawling, caring mother

Caleb Cluff
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More than 50 people have died in the first six months of Victoria's assisted dying laws.

More than 50 voluntary deaths in Victoria

Marnie Banger
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A search has been conducted in northern NSW in the investigation of missing toddler William Tyrrell.

Fresh search in William Tyrrell case

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Meg Crouch and her father, Phillip, among their Karu blood maidens which were the runners-up flock this year.

L'Estrange's top off big year

Mark Griggs
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James and Elise Nixon with Henry, 3, and Maggie, 2, with their Bundemar blood flock ewes at Leewang, Yarrabandai, which won the competition for the second successive year.

Nixon family's ewes back-to-back win

Mark Griggs
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Josh Clinton, Camden Valley, buyer Brock Sims, auctioneer Michael Glasser, selling agent Craig Pellow and Graeme Gilmore, Tattykeel with the top priced rams.

Aussie White rams hit $5000 at Narrandera

Stephen Burns
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PERFECT MATCH: Ensure your beautiful dishes are complemented by beautiful glassware and a quality cutlery set.

The finer points on cutlery

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