April Shepherd

Melbourne

Senior Editor at Infrastructure Magazine

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Articles

Training grants awarded

3 weeks ago | bhtimes.com.au | April Shepherd

FOUNDATION Broken Hill has announced which local students will be receiving funds from its extended 2025 Training Grant program. The program aims to help students pursuing study in disciplines critical to the Broken Hill community, with grants open to mature-age and high school graduate students. Valued at $1,000, the funds are designed to help the students with their studies and aims to ease th...
Bus next big dream for Barkindji dance group

3 weeks ago | bhtimes.com.au | April Shepherd

THE Barkindji Baaka Dance Group is currently fundraising to buy a new bus, with big plans to take the Wilcannia-based troupe on tour. The group was founded 20 years ago by Barkandji/Malyangapa man Uncle Owen Whyman, who grew up on the banks of the Baaka (Darling River). Whyman said the group was created after he had a dream. “In my dreaming I knew how to do dances and I played the didgeridoo,...
Power company cash for new scooters

3 weeks ago | bhtimes.com.au | April Shepherd

THE Y’s Men Club Broken Hill, with help from one of Transgrid's Community Partnerships Program grant funding, have bought three new mobility scooters for the community. Transgrid’s CPP funding project is accessible for communities throughout New South Wales where the company operates and offers grants for not-for-profit organisations. Broken Hill Y's Men’s Club is lead by President Geoff W...
Heavy on the metal pedal

3 weeks ago | bhtimes.com.au | April Shepherd

TWO local musicians are working together to put Broken Hill on the heavy metal map, hoping to bring the music festival, Metal to the Max, back and better than ever. Last year the event went ahead against all odds, organised by a team of metalhead locals such as Tomo Jovanovic from Firestorm, and with help from the local arts community. “We sort of pushed it through last year and just made it h...
Jury asked to decide on amputation stabbing

3 weeks ago | bhtimes.com.au | April Shepherd

A JURY has heard the details of a 2023 stabbing that caused the amputation of a local man’s leg during a trial this week in Broken Hill District Court. The altercation happened on June 20, 2023, following a fight between the accused Kyle Henderson and his mother Jenny Henderson, which resulted in Kyle stabbing his brother Dwayne Henderson. As part of the case the jury was told Kyle, his partne...
Why there were outages at Coles

3 weeks ago | bhtimes.com.au | April Shepherd

ESSENTIAL Energy has revealed the reason for rolling blackouts at the Coles and Cheap as Chips complex last week. The blackouts left Coles unable to sell meat or dairy. The outages began on Wednesday, May 21, and were resolved on Saturday, May 24. In a statement, an Essential Energy spokesperson said the issue originated in a substation. “Crews worked to investigate a fault in a high voltage...
Morning tea for cancer rises in popularity

3 weeks ago | bhtimes.com.au | April Shepherd

LAST week the Broken Hill Musicians Club hosted its first ever Biggest Morning Tea, raising money for the Cancer Council and blowing the fundraising target out of the water. The tea, held last Friday, May 30, at the club included an array of homemade treats, tea, coffee and raffle prizes. The club's general manager Michael Boland said their board of directors raised the idea of holding the event...
Connecting police and locals with trial platform

3 weeks ago | bhtimes.com.au | April Shepherd

NEW South Wales Police are encouraging the community to embrace its BluLink platform when it comes to reporting crime. The Barrier Police District has been using its Facebook to educate the public on the BluLink platform, in case of emergency. BluLink is a platform that allows the public to share information with NSW Police Force after calling Triple 000. If a 000 police dispatcher feels the si...
Public reminded to use phone health service

4 weeks ago | bhtimes.com.au | April Shepherd

NEW South Wales Health Minister Ryan Park has launched a campaign urging the public to use phone service Healthdirect as cold and flu season ramps up. The phone service is free, available 24/7, and provides the public with instant health advice. The campaign is encouraging NSW residents to save the number for Healthdirect in their phone, especially as winter arrives. Mr Park said that if someon...
Dedicated volunteer 'Legend of Tongs'

4 weeks ago | bhtimes.com.au | April Shepherd

d5738af965f5838db9178963ff2c9cb4 News Dedicated volunteer ‘Legend of Tongs’ Leanne Bird ready to feed hungry footy players. Picture: Supplied LOCAL volunteer Leanne Bird from the South Broken Hill Football Club has been recognised as a “Legend of the Tongs” - and is in the running to win $25,000 in products - in a national initiative run by Bunnings in partnership with the AFL.