30 Sep 10 | Memories flooded back on Saturday for the members of two Port Pirie football teams, who fought out a draw 40 years ago.
30 Sep 10 | A tour of the MCG was the highlight of a trip to Melbourne for the AFL preliminary final weekend for local footballer Jono Hayes.
30 Sep 10 | Harness racing will reportedly suffer a drop in finances according to Port Pirie Harness Racing Club president Mick Darling, followingthe announcement last week that some meetings will now be broadcast to another television channel.
30 Sep 10 | The Port Pirie Tennis International was initially planned as a once-off event, but wil this year celebrate the event's twentieth tournament.
30 Sep 10 | For the past nine years, Joyce Ness has organised the Old Style Dancing Group.
30 Sep 10 | Principal of John Pirie Secondary School, Trevor Rogers, told of his time spent in the booming United Arab Emirates.
30 Sep 10 | An ongoing initiative called “Ten for them” has been announced as the replacement for the tenby10 project and remains committed to reducing children’s blood-lead levels in Port Pirie beyond the end of 2010.
30 Sep 10 | The magic of a perfect spring day drew a big crowd to the Smelter’s Picnic yesterday.
30 Sep 10 | Lions win 2010 thirds premiership in the Spencer Gulf League.
30 Sep 10 | Two of Port Pirie’s three football clubs, Lions and Solomontown, are advertising for coaches to lead them into the next year of Spencer Gulf League competition.
30 Sep 10 | Amid the spectacle of the AFL’s first drawn grand final since 1977, it was easy to lose sight of Petria Ladgrove and her $50,000 kick from the 50-metre line.
She didn’t make the kick – but won a handy $10,000 consolation prize. She also met AFL stars including Chris Judd, Adam Goodes and Luke Hodge at a pre-match function.
30 Sep 10 | Lyndon Hall was thrilled to train the 2010 Horse of the Year Ultimate Asset. His four-year-old mare was one of three horses which all could have won the race at the final Port Pirie Harness Club meeting in the season.
30 Sep 10 | The theme for the 2010 Lighthouse Uniting Church Flower Show and Fete was “Love Is – Hearts and Flowers”.
30 Sep 10 | Outspoken builder Malcolm“Bluey” Johnson has challenged farmer Brenton Vanstone for the city’s top job.
The pair will contest the mayoralty at the Port Pirie Regional Council elections in November.
30 Sep 10 | Lead in Port Pirie’s soil could be cleaned up in years to come with studies in the United States showing that lead in soil can be immobilised when the soil is treated with orthophosphate.
30 Sep 10 | Port Pirie’s new $4 million public library is close to completion.
30 Sep 10 | From the “church in the paddock” to the Wandearah chapel in the desert, it was a long-distance gift of new pews.
23 Sep 10 | A recap of the big games of hockey as the curtain comes down on yet another season of hockey.
23 Sep 10 | Local woman Cathy Parker ran with her brother in the annual City to Bay fun-run to celebrate his surviving cancer.
23 Sep 10 | The Pirie West junior soccer club has received a fresh injection of much-needed funds.