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Cannery cleaned up, lease negotiations underway

An additional $880,000 worth of demolition work at the old Batlow Cannery site was approved last month by the Snowy Valleys Council, readying the...

Tumut-Batlow Rail Trail progress continuing behind the scenes

The Tumbarumba to Rosewood Rail Trail officially opened on April 3 this month and has been a huge success amongst locals since then, with...

Celebrations of life during a pandemic

One of the earliest social distancing restrictions introduced by the government in response to the Covid-19 pandemic was a rule that limited funeral services...

Valmar building taking shape

The opening of the new Valmar Support Services building is largely on schedule despite the impact of Covid-19. Valmar was aiming for an April 1 handover and an...

$70K for Adelong festival

The Adelong Progress Association is celebrating receiving a $70,000 Visy-Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal-Pratt Foundation grant  for its Back to Adelong project. Back to Adelong...

Autumn break brings optimism

As well as a cool, slightly wet Easter, the Tumut region has experienced above average rainfall in 2020, a welcome break in an otherwise awful year. A...

Sydney family kicked out, given 24-hours to leave over Easter

The Garay family, who had been staying at Elm Cottage since late March, were told by police on Good Friday that they had “24...

Funding to assist Ellerslie farmers

Funding announced to help replace fences which separate private and public lands will relieve some of the pressure on Snowy Valleys farms who lost...

Commercial rent relief mandated under National Cabinet code

Land taxes for commercial landlords will be slashed for anyone offering rental relief for small businesses, under a $220 million package announced by National...

Harvey Norman buoyed by response

Harvey Norman opened the doors to its new pop-up store in Tumut this week and manager Grant Knight said he “couldn’t be happier” with the response...