Barraba Community News

Barraba Community News is Barraba's own local newspaper. It is free, community owned and edited. You can obtain a hard copy from many of our local shops, receive an emailed copy every Wednesday morning or just log onto our site at a time to suit yourself. Please support us and advertise with us.

Join the Tech Savvy Seniors class at the Community College

1st April 2025
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Fundraising success for Richardson House

1st April 2025
Fundraising for Richardson House residents Well, what a day, maybe the rain helped! Such amazing support from so many for the Richardson House fundraiser to enable the purchase of a new lifter for residents. There are many thankyous’ to so ma...

Join the Tree Bombing group at the Claypan on Fridays

19th March 2025
Tree Bombing Activity FRIDAY MORNINGS AT THE CLAY PAN Commencing Friday 21st March at 10.30AM TO 12.30PM The Barraba Potters and Craft Guild members are excited to be conducting FREE community sessions to help achieve our Tree Bombing Project. Aim...

Closed dates for the Dr surgery

25th March 2025
Doctor’s Surgery Notice The Medical Centre will be closed for the following dates. Thursday 10th April to Wednesday 16th April, re-opening Thursday 17th April at 9am. Please ensure that you have enough medications for the closure pe...

TRC and regional planning

1st April 2025
We want to hear your feedback on the Draft Community Strategic Plan 2025-2035 which aims to map out the path community members want our region to take over the next 10 years. The draft has come together based on what you have told us during consultat...

Garage Sale 4-4-25

25th March 2025
Garage Sale 4/04/2025 7am onwards 17 Maude Street Many & varied items....

Race and Chase 17th April

1st April 2025
Race & Chase – Barraba Library 17 April @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm  Free Race and Chase challenges kids to build a pulley driven car out of simple materials. They will need to understand gear ratios, payload and drag. They will then test ...

Beryl Henshaw's story Part 1

1st April 2025
I heard that Beryl was leaving Barraba soon, having lived here for over forty years. I knew she was English, having arrived in Australia with her parents as a child – one of the “ten pound pom” families, encouraged to migrate from E...