29 Apr 10 | Last Saturday at McLean Oval, the Harden Hawks played the Braidwood Bears and had a convincing 26-8 victory.
Up against by far the strongest opposition this year, the young Hawks took up the challenge and with relentless defence and good attacking play, proved too good for the bears.
29 Apr 10 | Hundreds of local residents took the time to pause and reflect on the contribution made by servicemen and women, past and present, at Sunday’s Anzac Day ceremony.
22 Apr 10 | The inaugural Eventing NSW Award of Recognition is an acknowledgment to those who work tirelessly behind the scenes to facilitate eventing and receiving the prestigious award this year was local lady Marg Pestell.
Devoting years of volunteer service to the Harden Horse Trials as well as Young Pony Club, Marg is definitely a worthy recipient of the state award.
22 Apr 10 | Three years after a commitment was made by Southern Cross Care to increase and expand aged care facilities in the Harden Shire work has commenced on the Southern Cross St Lawrence Apartments.
16 Apr 10 | Les Curtis is the 2010 Club Singles Champion after an easy win over Terry Ricketts in the final played at the club on Saturday. Les has been in super form throughout the competition and took that form into the final.
16 Apr 10 | Showing off their talents and skills at the 2010 Sydney Royal Agricultural Show were the talented team from Murrumburrah High School’s Farm Club.
With the Easter holidays as a back drop for the Easter show, seven students from MHS left for the big event on Saturday April 3 with eleven steers in tow.
09 Apr 10 | IT all began on a concrete wicket at Wombat.
More than 35 years later, the career of one of Harden’s greatest cricketers, if not the greatest, Simon Doolan came to an end.
09 Apr 10 | Harden’s Dale Ashton knows what a good bird looks like.
Year’s of experience in breeding and showing poultry Dale has been a regular judge at Sydney’s Royal Agricultural Show but this year was given one of the biggest and most honoured jobs on the poultry calendar.
Dale was asked by RAS to be a specialist judge at the 2010 RAS and judge the Champion of Champions Best Bird in Show.
01 Apr 10 | Local boy Tom Maurer represented New South Wales at last week’s Australian Polocrosse Nationals.
Tom, now 15 years old, has been playing polocrosse with the Harden Polocrosse Club since he was five years old and said making the state squad was “a dream come true”.
01 Apr 10 | Visiting local properties and agriculture businesses in Harden this week are a group of 17 Americans.
The international visitors, consisting of sheep producers, educators and representatives of producer and farmer associations from Ohio, have a strong interest in developing local markets, particularly for quality lamb.