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For the first time in its 52-year history the Renmark Paringa Christmas Pageant could be moved from its traditional Friday timeslot to Saturday night.
At long last the Riverland returned triumphant from the South Australian Women's Eightball State Carnival in Adelaide on the weekend.
Several items of women's clothing were stolen from a clothes-line at a home in Zante Road, Berri, earlier this week.
Hundreds of Riverland school students were taught the value of water during an entertaining and interactive educational performance called Soaked, at the Chaffey Theatre on Tuesday.
Berri Barmera councillors have described a meeting with local election candidates on Tuesday night as a "worthwhile" and a “positive” exercise.
A Barmera motorist is facing a hefty repair bill after their vehicle collided with a stobie pole on Nookamka Terrace, causing $20,000 damage.
Young people across the Riverland would be encouraged to move into the local workforce under a plan put forward by Family First candidate for Chaffey Jack Papageorgiou.
Lake Bonney should be viewed as an asset, not a liability, according to a Chaffey election candidate.
The final chapter in a decade-long saga has ended with more than 1000 Riverland creditors receiving their final payments from the Riverland Fruit Co-op (RFC).
12/Mar/10 Freedom of speech is among Australia's greatest assets, indeed we take it for granted.
12/Mar/10 I WANT to thank Mark Hazelwood of Renmark (The Murray Pioneer, 5/3/10) for the opportunity to clarify my position regarding more water for the Chaffey region.
12/Mar/10 MIKE RANN has promised $109 million to supply metropolitan hospitals with an additional 100 medical personnel, including doctors, nurses, radiology staff, senior medical consultants and mental health nurses.
12/Mar/10 CONSIDERING HER reported ability to recall facts and figures at the Renmark Town Hall meeting (The Murray Pioneer, 5/3/10), will River Murray Minister Karlene Maywald please inform Chaffey electors as to the total costs associated with the closure of Lake Bonney and its partial refills?
12/Mar/10 I REFER to the Letter to the Editor from Deb Thiele (The Murray Pioneer, 2/3/10) which ignores the fact that the Rann Labor Government has neglected Chaffey for far too long.
12/Mar/10 IT WAS very pleasing to hear that AFL footballers will be tested for drugs that could enhance performance, including human growth hormone.
12/Mar/10 LET'S FACE it; the present good rains in Queensland and northern New South Wales do not herald the end of the drought.
12/Mar/10 DEB THIELE'S criticism of Patrick Secker (The Murray Pioneer, 2/3/10) smacks of sour grapes and should be dismissed as such.
10/Mar/10 KARLENE MAYWALD's call for compensation to irrigators whose licences will be reduced as a result of the risk assignment determined by the new Murray Darling Basin Authority is total hypocrisy.
10/Mar/10 IF YOU'RE a rusted-on political animal, there’s not much point reading on, because all a political animal seeks is power for the party.
10/Mar/10 I AM delighted to see the dunny block in Berri finally open for business.
10/Mar/10 THE BUREAU of Meteorology has got a lot to answer for following the severe thunderstorm that swept through parts of the Riverland on Sunday afternoon.
10/Mar/10 THINK BACK over three years. Growers were cut back to 13 per cent use of their water, and at this moment it is still only 55 per cent.
10/Mar/10 I WAS told last week that in Mildura gardeners are allowed to use their automatic pop-up garden sprinklers twice weekly.
10/Mar/10 THESE ARE the reflections - political and social comment – on the chance meeting of two very old Renmark West residents (one 95 and the other 92).
10/Mar/10 WHAT HAS become very clear to us all in the Riverland is that no matter which major party is in power South Australians are going to have to fight for every drop of water we need.
5/Mar/10 School teachers are best positioned to pass judgement on the Federal Government's new national teaching curriculum.
5/Mar/10 I FIND Tim Whetstone's advertisement, 'My plan for Chaffey’, interesting and would like him to clarify some points on ‘more water’ for the area.
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