Albury, Australia News

THE dream of creating a city of 300,000 in Albury-Wodonga will be recalled in a major exhibition at the Albury Library Museum next year.

ALBURY'S Legacy Club has marked its 80th anniversary by unveiling a memorial stone and steel stencil sculpture depicting the recipients of those many years of care - a war widow and her two children.

ALBURY deputy mayor Neville Hull has been cleared in another round of costly code of conduct complaints lodged by councillor Philomena Sawyer.

The forgotten victims of crashes - emergency service volunteers - put their hand up to help but can't simply forget what traumatic scenes they have witnessed.

ALBURY police yesterday seized methamphetamine with an estimated street value of more than $1.25 million after stopping a car in Holbrook.

But leaving the office to grab a cuppa and a piece of cake isn't always possible, Albury Central says.

POLICE have slammed the actions of a Wodonga driver who performed a burnout in front of an Albury pub, endangering more than 100 people lining up outside.

AUSTRALIA'S top fraud-fighting agencies have been called to account for their failure to pursue those responsible for stealing $176 million in Australia's largest superannuation theft.

A MASSIVE campaign of personal lobbying for new funds for Albury-Wodonga's public hospitals is needed for politicians to take notice, several health service leaders said yesterday.

Wodonga's regional cancer centre will be built on the Borella Road side of the Albury hospital, allowing plenty of room for other hospital expansion in the future.

ALBURY Council's planning committee chairman Cr Rob Angus has grave doubts that revised plans for the Union Road service station will appease the concerns of local residents.

The New South Wales Council of Social Services says some Riverina residents are deprived of access to basic services.

DOROTHY Gilding describes herself as part of the ignorant generation - those who knew little and understood nothing of the courage and sacrifice of all those who served their country.

THE flouting of a ban on smoking outside Albury hospital has forced a sufferer of Parkinson's disease to abandon his rehabilitation therapy at the site.

The new tyres, fitted just last week and yet to be paid for, were wearing obvious signs of several burnouts.

A WODONGA man suffering severe depression self-medicated with alcohol before having a serious accident at Howlong last year with four unrestrained passengers in his vehicle, including one in the boot.

THE clock will be turned back on the Hume Freeway this weekend with more than 100 old trucks, some dating back to the 1950s, travelling from Melbourne to Albury.

Speaking after watching her beloved Albury-Wodonga Bandits triumph over the Kilsyth Cobras on Saturday night, Ms Jackson said Ross Jackson would be a breath of fresh air for voters at the coming September elections.

THE Ovens and Murray Football-Netball League's decision on this year's grand final venue rests on a knife-edge with the board swaying back towards remaining at Lavington Oval.

ALBURY councillors were confronted with a major pre-election dilemma yesterday when given the green light to grant themselves a pay rise from July 1. Allowances for mayor Alice Glachan and fellow councillors can rise 2.5 per cent with a decision to accept the pay rise to come after confirmation of another rates rise.