Haydays Retirement Hostel Board Chair, Wayne Mitchell was presented with a cheque for $43,000 from Hay Community Bank Branch Manager Sandra Dolan and Customer Relationship Officer Maddison Aylett for the purchase of a new Nissan X trail SUV from local dealership Arandt Nissan Hay.

The regional housing squeeze is holding back the economy, and in Hay, NSW an average eight dwellings will need to be constructed every year to cope with the town’s expected annual growth rate of 0.60 per cent.

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As a visitor to the town, it is hard to describe how interesting and informative the signs that adorn the streets of Balranald are. Recently, a milestone was achieved for the area and its signs. A sign celebrating the Port of Balranald that operated between 1860 and 1930 marked the one hundredth sign.

A centenary plaque was unveiled at Hay War Memorial High School last week to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the school.

More than 100 people attended a Rangelands Forum held in Hay last Wednesday, hosted and organised by Sally Ware, Senior Land Services Officer from the Hay office of Riverina Local Land Services.

Centenary celebrations for Hay War Memorial High School’s 100th anniversary have commenced.

Descendants of one of Hay’s earliest sons, George Thomas Esplin, gathered by his grave in Melbourne Cemetery on April 8 to commemorate the 145th anniversary of his death in 1878 at just 40 years of age.

Hay octogenarian, Lurleen Mitchell won the coveted Over 60s Female category in the Best of the Bush Competition at the recent Mitchell family reunion.