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FRANKIE DeGROOT | News | CONTACT A young Harrington Park family is the talk of their scale-model suburb today after the most recent addition to the family was named “Timothy” after his grandfather. Parents Ayden and Charmayden said it was a difficult decision to make but they had always planned to name him Tim, and didn’t care what anybody else thought. However, other residents have...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT With over half of Australia spending at least 42% of the year in lockdown, many of us do not have to look far to see the effects of the economic woes dealt nationwide in 2021. It can be seen most clearly however in the NSW coastal town of Port Entrance who received so few blow ins in 2021 that...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT As those of us who are still employed wrap up work for another year, the public consciousness shifts towards personal goal setting this new year ie. doing all the things you have put off since July. In recent years, popular New Year’s Resolutions include weight loss, quitting darts and vegetarianism but recent surveying has revealed that 2022s most popular...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | CONTACT When it comes to sorting out new years plans, if you don’t have a house party to go to, you may as well have a quiet one at home or acknowledge that your night will likely cost more than $200 dollars - or spend a lot of time lining up somewhere. For local bloke Luke Prescott, he’d chosen to...

FRANKIE DeGROOT | News | CONTACT Despite several memorable mishaps in the past which are tactfully not mentioned at family barbecues, Uncle Joe is still keen to speak to his mate who knows the guy who works with the man who quietly imports fireworks from China. “The New Year’s fireworks were ok, but we used to put on a display like that every weekend. Kids today are sooks,” he...

LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT As the weather warms up and tourists start blowing in, coastal towns across Australia prepare for their local nightclubs to be slightly less depressing than they deserve to be. South of the border, in the SA coastal hideaway of Glumbucket Heads (just 18 hours south of Betoota) the locals are ready to reopen their clubbing institution, Club Rub. However, until...

COL DUNCAN | Local | CONTACT A local Queenslander has recently revealed that he thinks he’s top shit by using the correct pronunciation for his home State. Blaine Thompson (26) was visiting friends in the Betoota Ponds area when it became clear that he probably likes watching movies in other languages and visits art galleries out of recreation. In what was supposed to be a tongue in...

COL DUNCAN | Local | CONTACT After cancelling Sunday dinner for the last few weeks in a row because he lacks the emotional intelligence to spend time around his family when recovering from a session of extreme binge drinking, local man Doug Horne (32) has finally gone home to see his folks.  To nobody's surprise, it was only a few minutes before his old man asked,...

TRACEY BENDINGER | Culture | Contact What started out as a generous and loving gesture has this afternoon ended in disaster after local man Geoff Walker was unable to find his girlfriend at Betoota Airport’s express pick up area, causing Geoff to crack the shits and leave the airport all together. The trouble started after Geoff instructed his girlfriend, Tessa, to meet him at the...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | CONTACT A woman has today been torn between standing up for what she believes in or avoiding angry comments from disgruntled family members, it’s reported. Alyssa Gruegon is alleged to finally have had enough of the glaringly obvious gender roles, which saw the women of her family doing all the cooking and cleaning, while the men sat down and...