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Wednesday, April 30, 2025

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Event to shop local

BROKEN Hill’s Small Biz Collective have come up with a new idea to encourage people to shop local. The Mother’s Day Sip, Shop and Spoil event will be held on Thursday, May 1, and will feature a guided shopping experience, refreshments at The...

26 Apr 2025
Business

Dahlias in the desert

KEEN gardener Sarah Vlatko started growing flowers in her backyard purely for enjoyment, but after receiving interest from people wanting to buy them, she now delivers them throughout Broken Hill. Ms Vlatko said though she’s always loved flowers...

26 Apr 2025
Business

Commemorative gin raises funds for Legacy

THE Tydvil, in a fundraising collaboration with the Legacy Club of South Australia and Broken Hill, have released their annual special rosemary blend of gin commemorating local veterans and raising money for local families. The Tydvil has made 200...

19 Apr 2025
Business

From roasts to sushi at Southside institution Pepes Milk Bar

TALIKA Shorrock, the relatively new owner of Southside institution, Pepes Milk Bar, says she’s seen generations come through the takeaway since she first began working there 22 years ago.“We’ve gone from grandparents, to grandkids, and now...

18 Apr 2025
News

Week highlights young workers

SAFEWORK NSW have encouraged employers to ensure young staff are working in safe workplace environments Youth Week. In New South Wales, more than half a million people in the workforce are aged 25 and under and more than 15,000 of them are injured in...

13 Apr 2025
Business

Red Rooster scratching for franchisee

FAST-food chain Red Rooster has confirmed it is looking to open a restaurant in Broken Hill, and is searching for a franchisee. A spokesperson from the popular chain-restaurant, which specialises in roasted chicken, fried chicken, chips and burgers...

04 Apr 2025
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Southside businesses feel forgotten

BUSINESS owners along Patton Street in South Broken Hill have begun working together to promote their side of town, with many believing their area has been forgotten by locals and council alike. Two of the most vocal businesses in this new campaign...

30 Mar 2025
Business

Rudi’s clothing store suits daughter

By Em JensenRUDOLPH Alagich’s, a tailor and clothing store on Patton Street, has been stylishly dressing Broken Hill’s residents for almost eighty years. Store founder Mr Alagich, often called Rudi, was a tailor who began his career in the 1940s...

14 Mar 2025
Business

Studio a long term commitment

OWNER and head artist at Red Desert Ink, Jay Farquhar, hopes his tattoo studio on Argent Street becomes a business passed down through his family line for generations.“I have children and would presume they’re going to do this too, so long term...

08 Mar 2025
News

Youth jobs program offers skill sets

A FREE program funded by the New South Wales Department of Education called Skillset has set up shop in Broken Hill and is aiming to help young people who want to leave school, or those who have already left, to find their next...

07 Mar 2025
Business

Vintage Fashion shop reopens in time for St Pats

AFTER a six-month hiatus, vintage store Jonnie Loves Noreen on Patton Street have reopened this month, just in time for St Patrick’s Day racegoers to take a deep dive of the shelves in search of a 1960s outfit to fit this years theme...

01 Mar 2025
Business

Red Gum Honey Gin at the Pooncarie Telegraph Hotel

DANIEL and Caitlin Powe relocated to Pooncarie to take over the Telegraph Hotel’s lease three years ago and haven’t looked back. The Powe’s were running Broken Hill’s Line of Lode Café, which closed for renovations after COVID-19...

28 Feb 2025
News

Childrens store owner asks for local support

SEVEN years ago Michelle McLachlan walked into the Lollipop Tree on Argent Street to buy kids clothes and ended up buying the shop.“I’d worked at the pharmacy for 34 years, so I didn’t know anything else,” Ms McLachlan said.“But I wanted...

15 Feb 2025
Business

Of rodeo shirts and rescue roos

LATE at night on a station about 160kms out of Cobar, Kate Lauritsen-Graham sews button-up blouses for rodeo riders while her joey, Zoey watches from the comfort of a pillowcase pouch beside her.“I spend the day working fixing fences, on the...

14 Feb 2025
Business

Millers, Autograph leave gap in women’s clothing market

FOLLOWING the collapse of Australian fashion retailer Mosaic, Broken Hill’s Millers and Autograph stores are shutting down - leaving a sizeable gap in an already limited clothing market. The shutdowns are nationwide and not just limited to Millers...

14 Feb 2025
Community

Gardner by name, gardner by nature

GEOFF Gardner and his late wife packed up the car and hit the road from Taree on the New South Wales Coast some 14 years ago but only made it as far as Broken Hill.“We’d had a big wholesale nursery on a place called Oxley Island near Taree,”...

11 Feb 2025
News

Parking problems cause tensions to rise

LOCAL business owner Gary Werch has begun a petition calling on the Broken Hill City Council to re-evaluate Oxide Street’s parking arrangements due to a large volume of shoppers and not enough long-term parking. Mr Werch owns Freechoice...

08 Feb 2025