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Kick it: The Yass Football Club will get its summer soccer season underway today, with over 200 players registered.

Yass Redbacks ready to kick off 2019/20 summer soccer

Zac Lowe

Awarded: (from left) Paul Jephcott (current president), Mark Valencic, Warren Nielson, Grant Taylor, Andy Jewell (inaugural president). Photo: Supplied.

Yass Redbacks trio awarded Honorary Life Memberships

Yass Redbacks

A good cause: (from left) Grant Brewer, Barry O'Mara, Lionel the Lion, and Andy Hewitt at Victoria Park. Hewitt is wearing one of the specially-designed jerseys which will be auctioned after the game. Photo: Zac Lowe.

Yass Rams partner SPIN for Boys Above charity match

Zac Lowe

Kick it: The Yass Football Club will get its summer soccer season underway today, with over 200 players registered.

Yass Redbacks ready to kick off 2019/20 summer soccer

Dressed up: Magpies first grade captain, Shaun Davis, won the Sports Writers Award at the club's presentation night. Photo: Yass Magpies/Facebook.

Magpies celebrate suit-able success at presentation night

Zac Lowe

Unite: The Golf Club Piranhas and the Golf Club Snipers will combine this season to form a single team, which Paul Barnes expects to be very strong. Photo: Zac Lowe.

Changes marked ahead of 2019/20 YDCA cricket season

Zac Lowe

Will Smith in Gemini Man. Picture: Paramount Pictures.

REVIEW
Just one too many Will Smiths

Simon Weaving

The Australian Council of Prawn Fisheries can now tell if prawns have come from domestic waters.

Prawn 'citizenship checks' now a reality

Guinea pig-flavoured ice cream is available in Ecuador.

Guinea pig ice cream for sale in Ecuador

Gonzalo Solano

Will Smith in Gemini Man. Picture: Paramount Pictures.

REVIEW
Just one too many Will Smiths

Alfred Shearsby was once described as 'a person of amazing versatility in the traditional anti-culture climate in which he lived'. Photos supplied

Renaissance man of Yass Alfred Shearsby celebrated at town's museum

Cheryl Mongan

The Thin White Ukes: Betty France with Michael Dwyer and Robert Stephens, playing Yass on October 1. Photo: Marty Philbey

Best uke see this Odyssey

Shop anytime, anywhere: To become a savvy online shopper, all you need to do is type in the website of the product that you are looking for which should take you right there. Then select your items and head for the checkout.

Shopping with greater convenience

Emma Brown

CARE: World Mental Health Day highlights global mental health education, awareness and advocacy. Make a #MentalHealthPromise at 1010.org.au.

A light on mental health

SOMETHING TO TRUMPET: Everyone likes to look good in Cochin, India.

Cruise Singapore to Dubai next year

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Shop anytime, anywhere: To become a savvy online shopper, all you need to do is type in the website of the product that you are looking for which should take you right there. Then select your items and head for the checkout.

Shopping with greater convenience

New role: Sue Corcoran, chair of Boorowa Community Bank® Branch of Bendigo Bank, welcoming new business development manager Darren Manton. Photo: Supplied.

New business development manager appointed

Raising the standard of managers and leaders to create a better society

Raising the standard of managers and leaders to create a better society

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167 Cowper Street will be open for inspection at 11am Saturday October 12.
Agency: Angella Storrier Real Estate, Angella Storrier, 4821 9842 or 0418 427 713

Southern Tablelands open for inspection map and current edition ofDomain

Domain Southern Tablelands

Original period features circa 1927

Original period features circa 1927

Southern Tablelands House of the Week, 10/10

See inside one of the Luxe Residences on Fenwick Crescent, Goulburn at 9.30am Saturday October 5. Contact 0488 744 639.

Southern Tablelands open for inspection map and current edition ofDomain

Domain Southern Tablelands

Carolina Merriman

Thanks farmers, for all that you do

Carolina Merriman

Police turn purple for diversity. Photo: Janie Barrett

Purple shirts for diversity

John Klepczarek

Bradley Davis, president

It's a new year for doing business

Bradley Davis

Carolina Merriman

Thanks farmers, for all that you do

BOM: Damaging winds are expected to lash the Southern Highlands. Photo: supplied.

BoM issues severe weather warning

Newsroom

Let's work together to make rural roads safer

Let's work together to make rural roads safer

Inspector Jacob Reeves

91-year-old Audrey Dargan. Picture: Karleen Minney

REAL AUSTRALIA
The good, the not-so good and the inspirational

Voice of Real Australia is six months old so we thought it was time for a review

REAL AUSTRALIA
We've been watching you and the news is good

In this Oct. 16, 1968, file photo, U.S. athletes Tommie Smith, center, and John Carlos stare downward and extend gloved hands skyward in a Black power salute after Smith received the gold and Carlos the bronze for the 200 meter run at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City. Australian silver medalist Peter Norman is at left. Tommie Smith and John Carlos are part of the 2019 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame class. (AP Photo)

Controversy dogs even the latest salute to hero athlete Peter Norman

The 9500-tonne tyre stockpile. Picture: REX MARTINICH.

Company fined $440k for tyre stockpile, watch timelapse video

Stop: Take stock - could you be doing life differently? Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIA
Breaking boundaries in more ways than one

Damon Cronshaw

Go on: Hit the road. Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIA
Bored? You can't possibly be bored?

Nadine Morton

When Halloween comes early in the nation's capital expect a fright or two. Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIA
Running scared in blood-red Crocs

James Joyce

Jarrod Croker. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

REAL AUSTRALIA
The Canberra bubble lost some air, but it never burst

Chris Dutton

OPINION
We don't have to fight each other on climate

Tejopala Rawls
36m ago

PLAN: Alan Tudge wants to put in place incentives to support regional growth through migration. Picture: Alex Ellinghausen

OPINION
Making migration work for regional areas

Shyla Vohra

91-year-old Audrey Dargan. Picture: Karleen Minney

REAL AUSTRALIA
The good, the not-so good and the inspirational

See over a million spring flowering bulbs at Tesselaar Tulip Festival in Victoria, including tulips, daffodils, ranunculus and anemones.

Hello petal! Australia's must-see flower festivals

Geraldine Cardozo

Building Bridges to Boorowa volunteer Dick Orchard takes a break from tree planting. Photo: Andrew Scott

Tree change: How one Orchard and an army of volunteers can make a difference

Geraldine Cardozo

FRIEND IN NEED: Alma's recognition of Tom's stroke symptoms helped to get him to hospital for a treatment in a timely fashion

Quick thinking Alma a stroke of luck for Tom

Bayer will be taken to court over allegations its glyphosate-based herbicides cause cancer.

First Aussie farmer sues Monsanto over Roundup cancer claims

6m ago

TIME FOR ACTION: One Nation leader Pauline Hanson wants regulations that protected dairy farmers to be restored.

Dairy farmers praise Hanson for demanding change

6m ago

Barnaby Joyce wants the federal government to do more to support Julian Assange.

Barnaby calls on Australia to help Assange

9m ago

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is set to direct the competition watchdog to investigate mortgage costs.

Fed govt greenlights new banking inquiry

13m ago

The ACT Supreme Court is set to whether or not to award compensation to David Eastman.

ACT court set to decide on Eastman compo

Finbar O'Mallon
1hr ago

Michael Lavarch (C) will head the NSW Labor review announced by Anthony Abanese and Jodi McKay.

Former A-G to lead NSW Labor review

Solar-powered cars from around the world race from Darwin to Adelaide in the World Solar Challenge.

Dutch lead the way in solar car challenge

Chris Richardson says Australia has benefited from the US/China trade war, but risks lie ahead.

Aust 'big winner' in trade war: economist

Angus Livingston

Andrew Erbacher, Dave Woods and Stuart Thorn, inspect wheat following a millet cover crop. Research indicates where stubble cover is non-existent a summer cover crop can increase following winter crop yields.

Grow a summer cover crop to improve fallow rainfall capture

Bob Freebairn
2hrs ago

Work to begin: Armidale Regional Council Mayor Simon Murray.

Bore drilling set to start

TOURISM POTENTIAL: There are three luxury cottages, surrounded by beautiful gardens.

Buyers lining up to secure a slice of Mount Panorama

Rachel Chamberlain

The Powerhouse: well worth a few hours of your time.

Powerhouse Museum marks 50 years since moon landing

John Rozentals

Denver's Big Blue Bear at the convention centre - one of many pieces of fantastic public art

Crud, and the capital of grandeur, in Colorado

Lisa Mullins

Even though I now travel more than ever, it's been a long time since I've written a proper journal about my journeys. Picture: Supplied

Journals a fading write of passage

Michael Turtle

Viewpoints: Is 'Iron Maiden' better known as a heavy metal band or a German torture device from the Middle Ages? This one is up to 10,000 edits on Wikipedia.

Heavy metal band or torture device? Depends when you check Wikipedia

Mathew Dickerson
1hr ago

Anyone at any time can become a carer: National Carers Week will run from Sunday, October 13 to Saturday, October 19 this year.

Heart of a carer

MODERN: Large format blocks laid in a herringbone pattern are perfect for today's designer homes, or for adding a modern twist to heritage homes.

The 'classic contemporary' look is flawless