Forty years at our service - Dr Wayne Gardham

Hay Hospital staff rallied for better working conditions as part of state-wide action last week.

Work is under way on Witcombe Place Phase 2 on the western side of Lachlan Street.

There is no more iconic Australian movie than Mad Max and there is no more iconic landscape than the Hay Plains.

Jason Gee has attended every Riverina Redneck Rally since the inaugural event in 2017.

Monte Barnes is off to Sydney Royal Easter Show following success at the Group 9 Young Judges competition held last week in Cootamundra.

Mark Brettschneider, Richard Dixon and Ian Woods joined Black Deaths Australia Motorcycle Club and travelled to Canberra on January 26, as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy.

After years of drought, Cotton Australia is forecasting the industry’s second largest crop on record due to favourable conditions across most of Australia’s cotton growing regions.

A total of 57 nominations have been received for the 2022 Hay Business Excellence awards, after nominations closed last Friday.

The 2022 Hay Fishing Classic was declared a success by organisers, with more than 600 entries received. The annual event was hampered by flood conditions and COVID restrictions but still hosted more than 340 anglers in Hay on the weekend.

Hay’s first baby for 2022 is Chloe Grace, born

on January 20.

After two years without a show, 2022 will see the return of this annual event to the Hay community calendar.

Phyllis Jones is a true leader and loves what she does.

This has earned her the Hay Citizen of the Year Award for 2022.

Hard work and a focus on her future career have earned Zoe

Books this year’s Auscott Education Program Scholarship.

The new Hay Shire Council received some advice from the top at its first meeting last week, with General Manager David Webb cautioning councillors they need to look out the front on the road, and not in the rear vision mirror.

Spoonbills, ibis, egrets and herons are converging on the Great Cumbung Swamp for what promises to be a bumper breeding season.

Following an application for a recount of the ballot, the eight successful candidates in the Hay Shire Council election have been declared.

The new council for Hay Shire has been elected.

They are, in order of the ballot paper, Martyn Quinn, Jenny Dwyer, Peter Handford, Paul Porter, Carol Oataway, Peter Dwyer, Lionel Garner and Geoff Chapman.

River level to peak at Hay next week